Woman

An Historical Gynæcological and Anthropological Compendium

Hermann Heinrich Ploss, Max Bartels, Paul Bartels, Eric John Dingwall

• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781483166704
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483194189
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

Woman: An Historical Gynælogical and Anthropological Compendium, Volume Three provides information pertinent to the obstruction in the normal process of labor. This book discusses the various ways and treatment, the obligations and duties of women among the different nations and races. Organized into 21 chapters, this volume begins with an overview of the physical condition of women in child birth. This text then discusses the mechanical aids designed to hasten delivery and explains the external manipulations to bring about a normal presentation of the child. Other chapters provide a discussion of woman's milk as a medicine, especially for consumption. This book discusses as well the mutual relationship between grandmothers and their grandchildren. The final chapter deals with displayed special manners, customs, and superstitions at the death of a person who has remained unmarried, or of a woman who has died during pregnancy, in labor, or in childbed. This book is a valuable resource for anthropologists.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Woman: An Historical Gynæcological and Anthropological Compendiun
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• CHAPTER I. DIFFICULT AND ABNORMAL BIRTHS
• CHAPTER II. DIFFICULT LABOUR IN POPULAR BELIEF
• CHAPTER III. NATURAL MEANS OF CORRECTING PATHOLOGICAL LABOUR
• CHAPTER IV. BIRTH IN CASES OF ABNORMAL LABOUR
• CHAPTER V. CÆSAREAN SECTION
• CHAPTER VI. THE PHYSIOLOGY AND THE PATHOLOGY OF THE PUERPERIUM
• CHAPTER VII. THE THERAPY OF THE PUERPERIUM
• CHAPTER VIII. THE MANAGEMENT OF THE MOTHER IN THE PUERPERAL STATE
• CHAPTER IX. THE CEREMONIAL, SYMBOLISM AND MYSTICISM OF THE PUERPERIUM
• CHAPTER X. LACTATION
• CHAPTER XI. THE FEMALE BREAST IN CUSTOM AND TRADITION
• CHAPTER XII. UNUSUAL USE OF WOMAN'S MILK
• CHAPTER XIII. WOMAN IN RELATION TO THE NEXT GENERATION
• CHAPTER XIV. THE MATURE WOMAN IN A STATE OF CELIBACY
• CHAPTER XV. WOMAN AS SAINT
• CHAPTER XVI. THE WIDOW
• CHAPTER XVII. THE MENOPAUSE OR CLIMACTERIC
• CHAPTER XVIII. WOMAN AS GRANDMOTHER
• CHAPTER XIX. WOMAN IN OLD AGE
• CHAPTER XX. WOMAN IN DEATH
• CHAPTER XXI. WOMAN AFTER DEATH (SUPERSTITIONS)
• SHORT-TITLE LIST OF AUTHORITIES QUOTED