Letters to women on midwifery and the diseases of women : a descriptive and practical work ... illustrated with numerous cases of treatment / by Joel Shew.
- Joel Shew
- Date:
- 1887
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Letters to women on midwifery and the diseases of women : a descriptive and practical work ... illustrated with numerous cases of treatment / by Joel Shew. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![LETTER XXXVII CASES IX MIDWIFE R T. A Collection of Facts Illustrative of the Effects of Water-Treatment before^ during, and alter Childbirth. In the year 1843, at which time the water-cure had been heard of this side of the Atlantic only h\ a very few, 1 for the first time applied water-treatment in a case of midwifery. I had, it i> true, been for months, and I may say years, studying upon the matter, as a student of medi cine who is determined, all things, to learn and practice the truth, ought; yet I had no opportunity of bringing the principles which I believed in to Lear directly given case previously to the period referred to. The following, then, are some of the leading particulars of my first case : Case I.—The lady was a resident of this city, of a fee- ble constitution by inheritance, and, I think, twenty-one or two years of age. For three or four years previous to mfinement her health had been, on the whole, much improved. Her constitution seemed, indeed, to undergo a remarkable change for the better, in consequence of leaving off tea. coffee, spices, butter, and i)r-]i meat, and at the same time practicing the daily bath. She, in short, became, as her flesh-eating friends said, a thorough Gra- hamite. Notwithstanding her improvement, however](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21004055_0383.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
