MIDWIFERY AND THE DISEASES OF WOMEN =A Descriptive and Practical Work= SHOWING THE SUPERIORITY OF WATER-TREATMENT IN MENSTRUATION AND ITS DISORDERS, CHLOROSIS, LEUCORRHEA, FLUOR ALBUS, PROLAPSUS UTERI, HYSTERIA, SPINAL DISEASES, AND OTHER WEAKNESSES OF FEMALES; IN PREGNANCY AND ITS DISEASES, ABORTION, UTERINE HEMORRHAGE, AND THE GENERAL MANAGEMENT OF CHILDBIRTH, NURSING, ETC., ETC. =Illustrated with numerous Cases of Treatment.= BY JOEL SHEW, M. D., AUTHOR OF VARIOUS WORKS ON HYDROPATHY. NEW YORK: FOWLERS AND WELLS, PUBLISHERS, NO. 308 BROADWAY. LONDON: 142 Strand. BOSTON: │ 1856 │ PHILADELPHIA: No. 142 Washington St. │ │ No. 231 Arch Street. Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, by JOEL SHEW, in the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. INTRODUCTION. Concerning matters pertaining to midwifery, friends of Water-Cure sometimes ask questions like the following: 1. What methods of treatment shall we adopt to enable us the better to pass through the period of pregnancy? 2. What methods to aid in mitigating the pains and perils of childbirth? 3. Shall we employ a physician on such occasions? 4. If so, shall it be a male or female practitioner?