The married woman's private medical companion : embracing the treatment of menstruation, or monthly turns, during their stoppage, irregularity, or entire suppression. Pregnancy, and how it may be determined ... discovery to prevent pregnancy ... when proper or necessary to effect miscarriage ... causes and mode of cure of barrenness, or sterility / by A.M. Mauriceau.

  • Mauriceau, A. M.
Date:
1847
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Credit: The married woman's private medical companion : embracing the treatment of menstruation, or monthly turns, during their stoppage, irregularity, or entire suppression. Pregnancy, and how it may be determined ... discovery to prevent pregnancy ... when proper or necessary to effect miscarriage ... causes and mode of cure of barrenness, or sterility / by A.M. Mauriceau. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ey, : : B , ; eens and discoveries, in arts and sciences nnected with agricultural and mechanical pursuits, are rushing by with the impetus of a torrent? Is it that physiological and medical science has long since reached that state of perfection that improvement aud discovery are impossible? Is it that preceding gene- rations had engrossed, in physiology, all the know- ledge that could be attained, and left nothing for suc- ceeding generations to attain? Is it that disease, decrepitude, bodily suffering and stinted and imperfect physical development among mankind has no longer an existence? Is it that every woman enjoys the full bloom, virgin freshness and beauty belonging to . the enjoyment of a perfect condition of health ? Lo ils it that we no longer behold the deathly pale, sallow, 8 ckly female of sixteen or eighteen, in the last stage of some chronic disease, prepared for the cold em- brace of death? Is it that for the married woman six of the nine months of pregnancy is often a state of ‘suffering and anguish destructive to her health and cutting off her days? Is it too, that it never happens that she often has children only at the hazard of her own life, and that of her offspring ? Is it that children are invariably born healthy and rugged, capable of enduring the ordinary maladies to which infancy may ~ be subject, to be reared into robust and virtuous sons and daughters? Is it that by far the greatest propor- tion of those born, survive, instead of, at the least, two- thirds being cut off in infancy? No, indeed, it is not because of all this. It is because prejudice or ig _ norance thinks that if men and women acquired the knowledge whereby to improve their condition as so- * “