Parturition Without Pain; A Code Of Directions For Escaping From The Primal Curse
Published by Fowler & Wells, New York, 1871
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB)
AbeBooks seller since December 12, 2003
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 20.00
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Slim hardcover in maroon cloth lettered in gilt. Copyright page states only 1871 but this, the "Fifteenth Thousand" was published circa 1896. Patterned endpapers. 159 pp. A tight, very good copy, gilt lettering bright, some light spotting to the cloth. 19th century work on childbirth with various methods to make it as painless as possible. With chapters on preparations for motherhood, exercise and occupation during pregnancy, the bath (espicially the sitz-bath), painless parturition from a fruit diet, the mind during pregnancy, ailments, anesthetics during labor and a comment on female physicians, etc.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Parturition Without Pain; A Code Of Directions For Escaping From The Primal Curse
- Author
- M.L. Holbrook
- Publisher
- Fowler & Wells, New York
- Publication year
- 1871
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Edition
- Later printing.
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- Medicine
Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB)
Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
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