Parturition Without Pain; A Code Of Directions For Escaping From The Primal Curse
New York: Fowler & Wells, 1871. Later printing. Hardcover. 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. Very Good. Item #E22942
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