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Historical Midwifery statistics
Jürgen Schlumbohm. "Saving Mothers' and Children's Lives?: The Performance of German Lying-in Hospitals in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries." Bulletin of the History of Medicine 87.1 (2013): 1-31. Project MUSE. Web. 22 Apr. 2013. The author carefully runs the statistics and does a bit of comparing. He concludes-- though he has to ( Read more... ) -
A book I must read someday
The Court Midwife
By Justina Siegemund, Lynne Tatlock
Originally written in 1690. renaissance, gynecology, texts, obstetrics, women in medicineMedieval Medication (more on the herbwife, part eleventy-seven)
The herbal history fantasy group are prone to claim that herbs as medications were 'driven underground' by the Christian Church and/or the Medical Establishment during the middle ages and Renaissance.
Nancy Siraisi, in Medieval and Early Renaissance Medicine: An Introduction to Knowledge and Practice, p. 141, discusses the types of medication in ( Read more... )Holistic Herbalism?
People often backwards-generalize the division between a symptomatic or disease-focused 'scientific' medicine and an alternative 'holistic' or 'whole person medicine' seen in today's culture to the middle ages. To be completely blunt, this is bunk ( Read more... )