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Childbirth across ages and peoples
Original title : accouchement à travers les âges et les peuples - EDITION ORIGINALE 1939
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LALUNG, Henry de. L'accouchement à travers les âges et les peuples. Cortial, 1939. Quarto, softcover. 66 pages, numerous black and white photographs. First edition. Superstitions, errors, and prejudices regarding pregnancy, labor, and delivery. Magical practices, postures, cesarean section, monsters and hermaphrodites, imaginary births. Childbirth in the Bible, the Nativity. Ancient laws concerning mothers. Protective divinities and saints. Magic and childbirth.…
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LALUNG, Henry de. L'accouchement à travers les âges et les peuples. Cortial, 1939. Quarto, softcover. 66 pages, numerous black and white photographs. First edition. Superstitions, errors, and prejudices regarding pregnancy, labor, and delivery. Magical practices, postures, cesarean section, monsters and hermaphrodites, imaginary births. Childbirth in the Bible, the Nativity. Ancient laws concerning mothers. Protective divinities and saints. Magic and childbirth. Recognition of pregnancy in antiquity, duration of pregnancy, care given to pregnant women in ancient times. Boy or girl? Ancient treatments for pregnancy complications, psychic disturbances during pregnancy. Remedies and superstitious practices, static procedures. Postures and maneuvers adopted by different peoples, mechanical means to shorten labor.
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