"The Married Woman's Private Medical Companion" by A. M. Mauriceau is a 19th-century health guide for women, offering information on menstruation, pregnancy, and related health issues, with the goal of promoting understanding and self-care. The book addresses common concerns like irregular cycles and pregnancy complications, and also explores delicate subjects such as preventing pregnancy, managing miscarriage, and addressing barrenness, stressing the importance of knowledge in a time when open discussion about women's health was limited. It provides a resource intended to give women the information needed to manage their own well-being.
The married woman's private medical companion : $b embracing the treatment of menstruation, or monthly turns, during their stoppage, irregularity, or entire suppression. Pregnancy, and how it may be determined; with the treatment of its various diseases. Discovery to prevent pregnancy; its great and important necessity where malformation or inability exists to give birth. To prevent miscarriage or abortion. When proper and necessary to effect miscarriage. When attended with entire safety. Causes and mode of cure of barrenness, or sterility.
By A. M. Mauriceau
In an era of silence, this book dared to arm women with vital knowledge about their bodies, covering everything from the monthly cycle to the prevention of pregnancy.
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