HIST 449 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Late Termination Of Pregnancy, Wet Nurse, Tertullian
9 Jun 2018
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HIST 449- Mar 13/18
Women, children and drugs
Part 1: Women Continued. Introduce Children
Women and Children Cont
• Most vaginal dilators are found in Pompeii
• These dilators are very common
• There is also a lot of equipment to extract a dead fetus
• Was to cut up and remove a dead child piece of piece
• Tools for late term abortion
• One situation when the medical man would be called into the birthing room
was when a child had died
Tertullian, on the soul
• Writes on childbirth
• Talks of midwives reversing the direction of the baby in the womb
Topic: Children
• No treatises solely on children
• Always mixed up with everyone else
• There was some attention to age though, some treatments only worked on
children
Galen
• Does not usually show empathy for his patients
• Treatise called advice for an epileptic boy
• Talks on how to get a child to do a proper diet, he allows a little bit of
flexibility in regimen
• Allowing a little bit of flexibility in the regimen so that people dont gorge
• Has different advice for children and for adults
Epitaph of a child who died at age of 4 years
• 3rd-2nd c. BC
• Written in the childs voice
• It seems that the father is a doctor
• The mother is a wet nurse, probably not a super elite family
• He dies of consumption
• Lots of issues, different medical issues
• There is lots of tenderness and pathos to this account, probably written by
his father
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