The domestic instructor in midwifery : containing directions for the proper treatment of sexual diseases of women : for the management of pregnancy, labor, & child-bed : also, for the treatment of new-born infants : compiled for the advantage and use of such as have not access to a physician / by Dr. George Denig.

By the "sexual disease of women" Denig means menstruation and uterine disorders, to which he devotes his first thirty-eight pages. The signs and diseases of pregnancy occupy the next thirty-two pages; followed by 123 pages on parturition. Denig concludes the book with chapters on puerperal disorders and the management of mother and infant in the first month after delivery.