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Soranus' gynecology
of Ephesus Soranus and Owsei Temkin-
Frontmatter
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PREFACE (page ix)
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CONTENTS (page xiii)
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS (page xvii)
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS (page xix)
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INTRODUCTION (page xxiii)
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BOOK I Into How Many and What Sections the Doctrine of Gynecology Ought to Be Divided. (page 3)
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I. What Persons Are Fit to Become Midwives? (page 5)
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II. Who Are the Best Midwives? (page 6)
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III. What Is the Nature of the Uterus and of the Vagina? (page 8)
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IV. On the Catharsis of the Menses. (page 16)
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V. What Are the Signs of Approaching Mestruation? (page 20)
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VI. Whether Catharsis of the Meses Fulfills a Helpful Purpose. (page 23)
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VII. Whether Permanent Virginity Is Healthful. (page 27)
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VIII. Up to What Time Females Should Be Kept Virgins. (page 30)
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IX. How to Recognize Those Capable of Conception. (page 32)
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X. What Is the Best Time for Fruitful Intercourse? (page 34)
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XI. Whether Conception is Healthful (page 40)
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XII. What Are the Signs of Conception? (page 42)
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XIII. What Are the Signs, According to the Ancients, Whether the Fetus Is Male or Female? (page 44)
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XIV. What Care Should Be Given Pregnant Women? (page 45)
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XV. On Pica (kissa). (page 49)
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XVI. What Is the Care from the Pica till Parturition? (page 54)
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XVII. What Grows inside the Uterus of the Pregnant Woman? (page 58)
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XVIII. What Are the Signs of Impending Abortion? (page 61)
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XIX. Whether One Ought to Make Use of Abortives and Contraceptives and How? (page 62)
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BOOK II (page 69)
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I. What Signs Preceed Imminent Normal Parturition? (page 69)
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II. What Must One Prepare for Labor? (page 70)
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III. <What Must One Do in Delivery?> (page 72)
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IV. <What Is the Care of the Woman after Labor?> (page missing)
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V. On the Intumescence of the Breasts (page 77)
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On the Care of the Newborn (page 79)
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VI. How to Recognize the Newborn That Is Worth Rearing. (page 79)
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VII. How to Sever the Navel Cord. (page 80)
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VIII. <How to Cleanse.> (page 82)
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IX. <How to Swaddle.> (page 84)
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X. On Laying the Newborn Down. (page 87)
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XI. <On Food.> (page 88)
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XII. On the Selection of a Wet Nurse (page 90)
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XIII. On Testing the Milk. (page 94)
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XIV. How to Conduct the Regimen of the Nurse (page 97)
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XV. What One Should Do if the Milk Stops, or Becomes Spoiled or Thick or Thin (page 101)
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XVI. On the Bath and Massage of the Newborn (page 103)
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XVII. How and When to Give the Newborn the Breast. (page 108)
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XVIII. On the Dropping off of the Umbilical Cord. (page 114)
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XIX. When and How to Unswaddle the Child. (page 114)
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XX. How One Should Make the Infant Sit Up and Endeavor to Walk. (page 115)
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XXI. When and How to Wean the Infant. (page 117)
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XXII. On Teething. (page 119)
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XXIII. On Inflammation of the Tonsils. (page 121)
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XXIV. On Thrush. (page 121)
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XXV. On Exanthemata and Itching. (page 122)
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XXVI. On Wheezing and Coughing. (page 124)
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XXVII. On Siriasis (seiriasis). (page 124)
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XXVIII. On Flux of the Bowels. (page 125)
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BOOK III Whether Women Have Conditions Peculiarly Their Own (page 128)
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I. On the Retention of the Menstrual Flux and on Difficult and Painful Menstruation. (page 132)
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II. On Inflammation of the Uterus. (page 143)
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III. On Satyriasis. (page 148)
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IV. On Hysterical Suffocation. (page 149)
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V. <On Tension of the Uterus.> (page missing)
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VI. On Air in the Uterus (page 155)
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VII. On Soft Swelling of the Uterus. (page 157)
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VIII. On Scirrhus and Sclerotic Changes in the Uterus. (page 158)
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IX. On the Mole (mylē). (page 158)
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X. On Hemorrhage of the Uterus. (page 161)
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XI. On the Flux of Women. (page 165)
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XII. On the Flux of Semen. (page 168)
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XIII. On Atony of the Uterus. (page 170)
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XIV. On Paralysis of the Uterus. (page 172)
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XV. On Flexion, Bending, and Ascent of the Uterus. (page 173)
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XVI. <On Sterility and Barrenness.> (page missing)
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BOOK IV (page 175)
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I. On Difficult Labor. (page 175)
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II. How in General to Treat Difficult Labor, and the Detailed Care of Difficult Labor. (page 184)
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III. On Extraction by Hooks and Embryotomy. (page 189)
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IV. On Retention of the Secundines. (page 196)
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V. <On Abscesses in the Female Genitals.> (page missing)
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VI. <On Ulcers of the Uterus.> (page missing)
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VII. <On Cancers in the Uterus.> (page missing)
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VIII. <On Fistulas in the Uterus.> (page missing)
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IX. <On Enlarged Clitoris.> (page missing)
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X. <On Cercosis.> (page missing)
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XI. <On Warty Excrescenses in the Female Genitals.> (page missing)
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XII. <On Fissures.> (page missing)
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XIII. <On Knobby Swellings.> (page missing)
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XIV. <On Hemorrhoids in the Uterus.> (page missing)
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XV. On Prolapse of the Uterus. (page 200)
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XVI. <On Phimosis of the Uterus.> (page missing)
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XVII. <On Atresia.> (page missing)
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XVIII. <On the Use of the Speculum.> (page missing)
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ANCIENT NAMES (page 211)
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MATERIA MEDICA (page 215)
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INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES AND SUBJECTS (page 245)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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ISIS | 49.4 (Dec. 1958): 456-457 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0021-1753%28195812%2949%3A4%3C456%3AAHLAW%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I |
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Published: 1991
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- 9780801843204 (paper)