Soranus' Gynecology

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JHU Press, 1991 - 258 sivua

Soranus was one of the most learned and lucid medical qriters of antiquity. Among his admirers was St. Augustine, who called him "pre-eminent author of medicine." He was a leading medical figure of the early second century A.D., and of his writings preserved in Greek the Gynecology is the most important and most revealing of his thought. Including a section on infant care, Soranus' Gynecology represents ancient gynecological and obstetrical practice at its height. Many of its teachings were to remain part of medical practive as late as the sixteenth century.

Soranus is regarded as the outstanding representative of a school of ancient medicine knoen as the "methodist" sect, which rivaled the more ancient "dogmatic" and "empirical" sects. The methodists rejected both etiological research and mere experience, concentrating instead on a study of the phenomena of diseases themselves. Long out of print, this first English translation of the authoritative Greek text of the Gynecology is now available in a paperback edition. An introduction and notes provide insight into the work's historical and scientific background.

 

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
xvii
INTRODUCTION
xxiii
SORANUS GYNECOLOGY
xxx
Into How Many and What Sections the Doctrine of Gynecology
3
What Are the Signs of Conception?
42
What Are the Signs According to the Ancients Whether the Fetus Is Male or Female?
44
What Care Should Be Given Pregnant Women?
45
On Pica kissa
49
On Teething
119
On Inflammation of the Tonsils
121
On Exanthemata and Itching
122
On Wheezing and Coughing
124
On Flux of the Bowels
125
BOOK III
128
On the Retention of the Menstrual Flux and on Difficult and Painful Menstruation
132
On Inflammation of the Uterus
143

What Is the Care from the Pica till Parturition?
54
What Grows inside the Uterus of the Pregnant Woman?
58
What Are the Signs of Impending Abortion?
61
Whether One Ought to Make Use of Abortives and Con traceptives and How?
62
BOOK II
69
What Must One Prepare for Labor?
70
What Must One Do in Delivery?
72
What Is the Care of the Woman after Labor? missing
76
On the Intumescence of the Breasts
77
On the Care of the Newborn
79
How to Sever the Navel Cord
80
How to Cleanse
82
How to Swaddle
84
On Laying the Newborn Down
87
On Food
88
On the Selection of a Wet Nurse
90
On Testing the Milk
94
How to Conduct the Regimen of the Nurse
97
What One Should Do if the Milk Stops or Becomes Spoiled or Thick or Thin
101
On the Bath and Massage of the Newborn
103
How and When to Give the Newborn the Breast
108
On the Dropping off of the Umbilical Cord
114
How One Should Make the Infant Sit Up and Endeavor to Walk
115
When and How to Wean the Infant
117
On Satyriasis
148
On Hysterical Suffocation
149
On Tension of the Uterus missing
154
On Air in the Uterus
155
On Soft Swelling of the Uterus
157
On Scirrhus and Sclerotic Changes in the Uterus
158
On Hemorrhage of the Uterus
161
On the Flux of Women
165
On the Flux of Semen
168
On Atony of the Uterus
170
On Paralysis of the Uterus
172
On Flexion Bending and Ascent of the Uterus
173
On Sterility and Barrenness missing
174
BOOK IV
175
How to diagnose the causes of difficult labor
183
How in General to Treat Difficult Labor and the Detailed Care of Difficult Labor
184
On Extraction by Hooks and Embryotomy
189
On Retention of the Secundines
196
On Abscesses in the Female Genitals missing VI On Ulcers of the Uterus missing VII On Cancers in the Uterus missing VIII On Fistulas in the Uteru...
200
On Phimosis of the Uterus missing XVII On Atresia missing XVIII On the Use of the Speculum missing
207
ANCIENT NAMES
211
MATERIA MEDICA
215
INDEX OF PERSONAL NAMES AND SUBJECTS
245
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Tietoja kirjailijasta (1991)

Owsei Temkin, M.D. (1902–2002), was William H. Welch Professor of the History of Medicine and director of the Institute of the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. His books include The Falling Sickness: A History of Epilepsy from the Greeks to the Beginnings of Modern Neurology, Soranus' Gynecology (translation), and Hippocrates in a World of Pagans and Christians.

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ISBN0801843200, 9780801843204
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