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The history of medications for women : materia medica woman

Title
The history of medications for women : materia medica woman / by Michael J. O'Dowd.
Author
O'Dowd, Michael J.
Publication
New York, USA : Parthenon Pub. Group, [2001], ©2001.

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Description
xv, 455 pages : illustrations; 29 cm
Alternative Title
Materia medica woman
Subject
  • Materia medica > History
  • Women's health services > History
  • Drug Therapy > history
  • Genital Diseases, Female > history
  • Complementary Therapies
  • Genital Diseases, Female > drug therapy
  • Obstetrics > history
  • Women's Health
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. The Prescription -- 3. Ergot -- 4. Lettuce -- 5. Mummy Medicine -- 6. Assyria -- 7. Egypt -- 8. Biblical Times -- 9. Greece and Rome -- 10. Byzantium -- 11. The Arab Influence -- 12. The Late Middle Ages -- 13. The Sixteenth Century -- 14. The Seventeenth Century -- 15. The Eighteenth Century -- 16. the Nineteenth Century -- 17. The Twentieth Century -- 18. Anesthesia and Analgesia and the Curse of Eve -- 19. Antiseptics, Antibiotics and Chemotherapy -- 20. Blood Transfusion and Rhesus Disease -- 21. Eclampsia -- 22. Family Planning -- 23. The Menopause -- 24. Uterine Stimulants -- 25. The Orient -- 26. The Americas -- Therapeutical Classification of Remedies.
ISBN
1850700028 (alk. paper)
LCCN
00038506
OCLC
  • ocm43854052
  • SCSB-4114895
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries