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The first work of its kind, The History of Medications for Women: Materia medica woman is a richly detailed, far-ranging illustrated history of medications for women in all the great cultures and civilizations, from ancient times to the present. Compiled by an acclaimed author of medical history literature, this is the only book that extends from the earliest uses of ergometrine, lettuce, and mummy medicine, through the history of women's medications in ancient Assyria and Egypt, and into the 16th through 20th centuries.

With the main sections organized by origin and timeline, the book contains lists of medications used by women from earliest times to the present accompanied by historically-based text. The author includes botanical, chemical, pharmacalogical, and therapeutic details where appropriate, as well as extensive quotations from both contemporary and old, rare books. The text is complemented with the history of obstetrics and gynecology, along with short biographies and illustrations. Additionally, the author presents a unique fund of hard-to-find information in sections devoted to topics such as anesthesia and analgesia, antiseptics, antibiotics and chemotherapy, blood transfusion and Rhesus disease, eclampsia, family planning, menopause, and uterine stimulants. Interesting and thought-provoking, The History of Medications for Women will not only provide an enjoyable read, but will allow you to appreciate the past and look at the future with a new perspective.

Author(s): M.J. O'Dowd
Publisher: CRC Press
Year: 2001

Language: English
Pages: 471
City: New York

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Section 1
1. Introduction
The evolution of materia medica woman
The scope of materia medica woman
Research: Problems and solutions
Presentation
Highlights of materia medica woman
Conclusion
Section 2 — Origins
2. The Prescription
The origin of the prescription
The origin of the Rx symbol
References
3. Ergot
Introduction
Introduction of ergot into official medicine
The modern use of ergot
References
4. Lettuce
The lettuce plant
History of lettuce
Historical uses of lettuce
Current use of lettuce
References
5. Mummy Medicine
Wolveridge’s mummy medicine
Mummification
Mummies as medicine
A selection of mummification agents
References
Section 3 — Chronology
6. Assyria
Introduction
The archeological story
The basis of the Assyrian medical system
Fertility and childbirth
The Assyrian herbal
Materia medica in ancient Assyria
References
7. Egypt
Introduction
The basis of the ancient Egyptian medical system
The ancient healers
Ancient Egyptian treatments
Fertility and childbirth
Female disorders
Male disorders
The medical papyri
Examples of women’s materia medica in ancient Egypt
Glossary of ancient Egyptian fertility deities
References
8. Biblical Times
History of the Bible
Biblical medicine
Botany of the Bible
Obstetrics and gynecology in the Bible
A selection of biblical materia medica for women
References
9. Greece and Rome
Introduction
Mythology and Greco-Roman medicine
Medicine in the early classical period
Alexandria
The Greco-Roman period
Medications for women
Examples from Soranus’ materia medica
Glossary of Greco-Roman medical terms
References
10. Byzantium
Introduction
Oribasius of Pergamum
Aetius of Amida
Alexander of Tralles
Paul of Aegina
A selection of Byzantine materia medica for women
Medications for women prescribed by Aetius of Amida
References
11. The Arab Influence
Introduction
Arabian obstetrics and gynecology
Arabian materia medica
Serapeon the Elder
Rhazes
Haly Ben Abbas
Avicenna or Ibn Sina
Albucasis
Avenzoar
Averröes
Safavid medical practice
Arab medicine in the early twentieth century
A selection of Arabian materia medica for women
Arabian drugs and their uses recorded in Francis Adams’ Paul of Aegina
References
12. The Late Middle Ages
Introduction
John of Arderne’s De Arte Phisicali et de Cirurgia
A Leech Book or Collection of Recipes
Medieval Woman’s Guide to Health
A selection of medieval materia medica for women
References
13. The Sixteenth Century
Introduction
The Little Book for Women
Der Schwangern Frauen und Hebammen Rosengarten
The Byrth of Mankynde
De Conceptu et Generatione Hominis or The Expert Midwife
Walter Cary’s A Boke of the Properties of Herbes
William Turner’s Herbal
Turner’s A Booke of the Natures and Properties... of the Bathes
Gerard’s Herball
Paracelsus: A change of direction
A selection of materia medica from the sixteenth century
The Byrth of Mankynde materia medica
References
14. The Seventeenth Century
Introduction
Culpeper’s Directory for Midwives
Culpeper’s Pharmacopoeia Londinensis: or the London Dispensatorie
Culpeper’s A Key to Galen’s Method of Physick
Culpeper’s The English Physician Enlarged
Nicholas Culpeper: A biography
James Wolveridge’s Speculum Matricis: or The Expert Midwives Handmaid
François Mauriceau and The Diseases of Women with Child
A selection of seventeenth century materia medica
References
15. The Eighteenth Century
Introduction
Obstetrics, gynecology and materia medica in the eighteenth century
Fielding Ould’s A Treatise of Midwifery
Fielding Ould (1710–1789): A biography
Carl Linnaeus’ Materia Medica
Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778): A biography
William Smellie’s Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery
William Smellie’s A Collection of Cases and Observations in Midwifery
William Smellie’s A Collection of Preternatural Cases and Observations in Midwifery
William Smellie (1697–1763): A biography
A selection of eighteenth century materia medica
References
16. The Nineteenth Century
Introduction
Samuel Bard’s A Compendium of the Theory and Practice of Midwifery
Samuel Bard (1742–1821): A biography
Charles Meigs’ The Philadelphia Practice of Midwifery
The Pseudo-Aristotle series
Charles West’s Diseases of Women
Henry MacNaughton Jones and Uterine Therapeutics
Sidney Ringer’s Handbook ofTherapeutics
A selection of nineteenth century materia medica
References
17. The Twentieth Century
Introduction
Obstetrics and gynecology in the early twentieth century
Twentieth century advances in obstetrics and gynecology
A selection of twentieth century materia medica — Individual drugs
A selection of twentieth century materia medica — Drug groups
A selection of twentieth century materia medica — Drugs in pregnancy
Epilogue
A selection of twentieth century ‘alternative medications’
References
Section 4 — Special Subjects
18. Anesthesia and Analgesia and the Curse of Eve
Introduction
Midwifery in the pre-anesthetic days of the early 1800s
Controversies — medical and moral
Comparison between anesthesia and no anesthesia in labor in the nineteenth century
Other inhalation agents
Twilight sleep
Sedatives
Local and conduction analgesia
Anesthesia and maternal mortality
Biographies
Epilogue
References
19. Antiseptics, Antibiotics and Chemotherapy
Introduction
Childbed or puerperal fever
Tuberculosis
Venereal disease and its treatment
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS)
Antisepsis
Chemotherapy
Antibiotics
A selection of antimicrobial agents
Biographies
Postscript
References
20. Blood Transfusion and Rhesus Disease
Introduction
Mythology
The early days
Blood pressure
Anticoagulants
Methods of transfusion
Blood groups
Blood transfusion in obstetrics
Congenital hemolytic disease — rhesus disease
References
21. Eclampsia
Introduction
Older treatments
Modern Treatments
Biographies
References
22. Family Planning
Introduction
Contraception through the ages
The condom
The ‘birth control’ movement
Marie Stopes’ Contraception
The legal ‘position’ of contraception in Britain, France and America
Hormonal contraception
Other forms of contraception
References
23. The Menopause
Introduction
The menopause and life expectancy
Menopause through the ages
A selection of treatments to induce menstruation
The twentieth century
Sex organ therapy, old and new
Other landmarks in hormonal therapy
Hormonal therapy: benefits and risks?
Medical, nonhormonal treatment
The menopause in various cultures
Complementary medicine
Traditional Chinese medicine
Conventional medicine and recent progress
Epilogue
References
24. Uterine Stimulants
Introduction
Uterine stimulants for labor
Oxytocin
Sparteine
Quinine and the OBE
Prostaglandins
The induction of labor
Biographies
References
Section 5 — Civilizations
25. The Orient
Introduction
China
Early medical development
A selection of Chinese materia medica
India
The Indian materia medica
A selection of Indian materia medica
References
26. The Americas
Introduction
The native North Americans
European discovery of the Americas
Colonial medicine
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
Selected American Indian medicines
References
Section 6 — Appendices
Therapeutical Classification of Remedies
Abbreviations Commonly Used in Prescriptions
Sources of Illustrations
Index