A treatise on the diseases of married females : disorders of pregnancy, parturition and lactation.

  • Peters, John C. (John Charles), 1819-1893.
Date:
1854
    A TREATISE ON THE DISEASES OF MARRIED FEMALES. DISORDERS OF PREGNANCY, PARTURITION AND LACTATION. BY JOHN C. PETERS, M.D. NEW-YORK I WILLIAM RADDE, No. 322 BROADWAY. Philadelphia : Rademacher & Sheek.—Boston : Otis Clapp St. Louis : J. G. Wesselhceft. London: J. Epps, 112 Great Russell-st., Bloomsburv. Manchester : Turner, 41 Piccadilly. 1854.
    Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by WILLIAM RADDE, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New-York. Henry Ludwig, Printer, 45 Vesey-st., N. Y. sr
    AUTHOR'S PREFACE. This work is compiled and arranged upon the same plan as the Treatise on Disorders of Menstruation, lately published. I claim no unusual amount of knowledge or experience upon the subjects of which it treats ; in fact it was undertaken as much for my own instruction as that of others. It is intended more especially for the junior medical practitioner, for experienced nurses, and for mothers. I have sought to avoid the confusing intricacy of complete and compendious treatises on Midwifery, and to escape the trifling pomposity of catch-penny popular works. The works of Cazeaux, Colombat, Murphy, Whitehead, Tilt, Ticknor, Tracy, Anderson, Churchill, Valleix, Vernois, Becqucrel, Leadam, Cro- serto, and Williamson have been freely used, and the language of the- respective authors has generally been adopted. J. C. PETERS. 742 Bkoadway, New-York.
    JOHN A. MCVICKAR, M.D., l,ATE PHYSICIAN TO THE NEW-YORK LYING-IN ASYLUM ; LATE PROFESSOR OF MIDWIFERY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF THE CITY OF NEW-YORK; LATE PRESIDENT OF THE HAHNEMANN ACADEMY OF MEDICINE. Dear Doctor, I have so frequently availed myself of your valuable assis- tance in cases of difficult and dangerous parturition, that common gratitude compels me to dedicate this little treatise to you. Yours sincerely and respectfully, J. C. PETERS.
    ON THE DISEASES OF PREGNANCY, PARTURITION, AND LACTATION. ON MARRIAGE. We take it for granted that, in civilized countries, marriage only takes place between persons of proper age, and from the dictates of reason and personal affection. From 18 to 25 years of age may be considered the most proper period for females to contract marriage ; from 25 to 30 years for males. Interest, superstition, and still more unworthy motives, have, however, in all ages, led to earlier marriages. Ac- cording to Roberton, marriages of interest were, perhaps, more abused in England, up to the year 1660, than in any other country; and that not always for the interest of the contracting female; but, on the contrary, frequently to her great detriment in person and estate. Then, almost all the property of the English realm was, by the policy of the laws, supposed to be granted by, dependent upon, or holden of some superior chief or lord ; even wardship and marriage were under the control of these grasping freebooters. The right of wardship meant, that the lord had the guardianship of his tenant during his minority, by virtue of which right he had both the care of his person, and reserved to his own use the profit of the estate, except the ward's sustenance and clothing, the amount of which lay much at the mercy of his lord. Further, by a gross abuse of this custom in Eng- land, this right of wardship was often, by the lord, assigned over to strangers ; or it was put up to sale, or bequeathed A