Midwifery and the diseases of women
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BY JOEL SHEW, M. D.,
AUTHOR OF VARIOUS WORKS ON HYDROPATHY.
NEW YORK:
FOWLERS AND WELLS, PUBLISHERS,
No. 308 Broadway.
London: 142 Strand.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by Joel Shew, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.
Concerning matters pertaining to midwifery, friends of Water-Cure sometimes ask questions like the following:
1. What methods of treatment shall we adopt to enable us the better to pass through the period of pregnancy?
2. What methods to aid in mitigating the pains and perils of childbirth?
Joel Shew
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INTRODUCTION.
CONTENTS.
AGE AT WHICH THE MENSES COMMENCE.
COMMENCEMENT OF THE MENSTRUAL DISCHARGE.
SOURCE OF THE MENSES.
PERIODICITY.
NATURE OF THE MENSTRUAL DISCHARGE.
QUANTITY.
AGE AT WHICH THE MENSES CEASE.
EXTENT OF THE FRUITFUL PERIOD.
IS THIS PERIOD A DANGEROUS ONE?
THE CHANGE OF LIFE.
MANAGEMENT AT THE CHANGE OF LIFE.
EFFECTS OF WATER-TREATMENT.
CHLOROSIS.
EFFECTS OF DRUG-TREATMENT.
DYSMENORRHEA.
CLOTHING.
LACING.
AIR AND EXERCISE.
THE DRINK.
UTERINE HEMORRHAGE.
SLEEPLESSNESS.
HEART-BURN.
CONSTIPATION.
DIARRHEA.
PILES AND HEMORRHOIDS.
STYE IN THE EYE.
SALIVATION.
HEMORRHAGE FROM THE STOMACH.
URINARY DIFFICULTIES.
CRAMP OF THE STOMACH.
TOOTHACHE.
JAUNDICE.
PAIN IN THE RIGHT SIDE.
ITCHING OF THE GENITAL ORGANS.
SWELLINGS OF THE LIMBS AND VARICOSE VEINS.
CRAMPS IN THE LOWER LIMBS.
PAIN IN THE BREASTS.
HYSTERIA.
PHYSICAL HINDRANCES.
EXPOSURE TO DISEASE.
VACCINATION.
MENTAL DESPONDENCY.
LONGINGS.
THE IMAGINATION.
EFFECTS OF FRIGHT.
BLISTERS.
EMETICS.
PURGATIVE MEDICINES.
BLOOD-LETTING.
THE PELVIS.
THE BLADDER.
THE URETHRA.
THE VAGINA.
APPENDAGES OF THE UTERUS.
OSSEOUS SYSTEM.
MUSCULAR SYSTEM.
VASCULAR SYSTEM.
FETAL CIRCULATION.
NERVOUS SYSTEM.
ORGANS OF SENSE.
FETAL LUNGS.
FETAL HEART.
VISCERA OF THE ABDOMEN.
FETAL LIVER.
KIDNEYS AND SUPRA-RENAL CAPSULES.
VISCERA OF THE PELVIS.
DIVISIONS OF LABOR.
IS PAIN A NATURAL CONDITION OF LABOR?
ETHER AND CHLOROFORM.
STAGES OF LABOR.
THE LIQUOR AMNII, OR WATERS.
THE AGE AS AFFECTING LABOR.
THE MEMBRANES.
OF FLOODING AFTER DELIVERY.
OF STILL-BIRTH.
WASHING AND DRESSING THE CHILD.
HYSTERIA.
LEUCORRHEA, OR WHITES.
PROLAPSUS UTERI.
INDEX.
