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SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT DISEASES PECULIAR TO WOMEN
By Robert Gooch
First American Edition, Philadelphia 1836
This historical book remains in its original full leather binding and in VERY GOOD condition. Leather on the hinges are cracked, but hinges are sound. Text is clean, with very minor foxing throughout. Book measures 5.5" x 8.5" with 326 pages.
RELEVANCE OF THIS BOOK:
The phenomenon of mothers showing signs of mental disturbance, intense misery, or erratic, violent behavior following delivery was recognized long before the nineteenth century by midwives, men-midwives and women attending at deliveries. The pains of childbirth left women debilitated or propelled them into a state of frenzy. This temporary insanity had long been implicated in cases of infanticide, with midwives vouching that the accused women "were not quite right in the head."
This association between madness following delivery and infanticide would continue throughout the nineteenth century. The insanity itself, however, began to be discussed more intensively, more extensively, by medical men and to find an important place in medical language and texts.
The first English treatise on puerperal insanity was written in London, in 1829 by Robert Gooch (We are Offering in here the first American Edition of 1836), who explained that:
"During that long process, or rather succession of processes, in which the sexual organs of the human female are employed in forming, lodging, expelling, and lastly feeding the offspring, there is no time at which the mind may not become disordered; but there are two periods at which this is chiefly liable to occur, the one soon after delivery when the body is sustaining the effects of labor, the other several months afterwards, when the body is sustaining the effects of nursing."
By the mid-nineteenth century puerperal insanity was firmly established in medical literature as an easily recognizable condition, triggered by the specific event of childbirth and its aftermath, and usually setting in soon after delivery. Robert Gooch, explains:
"Nervous irritation is very common after delivery, more especially among fashionable ladies, and this may exist in any degree between mere peevishness and downright madness. Some women, though naturally amiable and good tempered, are so irritable after delivery that their husbands cannot enter their bed-rooms without getting a certain lecture; others are thoroughly mad.
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