Midwifery and the diseases of women : a descriptive and practical work : showing the superiority of water-treatment in menstruation and its disorders, chlorosis, leucorrhea, fluor albus, prolapsus uteri, hysteria, spinal diseases, and other weaknesses of females : in pregnancy and its diseases, abortion, uterine hemorrhage, and the general management of childbirth, nursing, etc., etc. : illustrated with numerous cases of treatment / by Joel Shew.

  • Shew, Joel, 1816-1855.
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[1852]
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Credit: Midwifery and the diseases of women : a descriptive and practical work : showing the superiority of water-treatment in menstruation and its disorders, chlorosis, leucorrhea, fluor albus, prolapsus uteri, hysteria, spinal diseases, and other weaknesses of females : in pregnancy and its diseases, abortion, uterine hemorrhage, and the general management of childbirth, nursing, etc., etc. : illustrated with numerous cases of treatment / by Joel Shew. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTION. 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 perilB of childbirth? 3. Shall we employ a physician on such occasions ? 4. If so, shall it be a male or female practitioner ? As regards the first and second of these queries collectively, I remark, that in 1843 I commenced the practice of midwifery ac- cording to the hydropathic plan, and have, from time to time since that period, published articles on the subject of pregnancy and childbirth, and have put forth, also, a small work which has had a wide circulation, and been the means of doing some good- There is, doubtless, no branch or department of the medical art in which a judicious regulation of water, air, exercise, and diet, are more strik- ingly beneficial than in that now under consideration. I would speak earnestly on this point, and as to the truthfulness of what I affirm, I may confidently refer to the experience of those who havo a knowledge of the subject—to those ivho have themselves exper- ienced the t'ffcvls of hydropathy. We do not hear persons say, M We have resorted to the water-treatment in childbirth and have found it to be an injury to us; but on the contrary, we do hear it said, We had borne a number of children under the old meth- ods, suffering at each time more than mortal tongue can describe; but now, since we have become informed on the subject of Water- Oure, we find childbirth—hard as it necessarily is—a much more