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4 entries match Obstetrics & Reproductive [C13 / G02.403.615] · Pharmacology & Therapeutics [D01 / E02] · Women & Gender [K01.700.500]

2014 CE

#10422

Aphrodisiacs, fertility and medicine in early modern England.

This work "... in its extensive study of gynecological treatises from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, provides an important intervention into assumptions about the subversive quality of aphrodisiacs and abor…

1992 CE

#7043

Contraception and abortion from the ancient world to the Renaissance.

Riddle argued that the ancient world possessed effective and safe contraceptives and abortifacients; however this knowledge about fertility control, widely held in the ancient world, was gradually lost over the course…

2020 CE

#13512

The history of medications for women: Materia medica woman.

"...includes botanical, chemical, pharmacalogical, and therapeutic details where appropriate, as well as extensive quotations from both contemporary and old, rare books. The text is complemented with the history of ob…

1936 CE

#6281

Treatment of human puerperal infections, and of experimental infections in mice, with prontosil.

Chemotherapeutic treatment of puerperal sepsis.