[Sca-cooks] Thoughts on food as medicine

Johnna Holloway johnnae at mac.com
Fri Jan 14 18:52:58 PST 2011


What I thought was interesting about the Mauriceau text were the  
number of times the water or wine quenched with iron showed up as a  
treatment.

You asked about  La commare o raccoglitrice
A later edition is up at

http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k51217h

The link came off a Worldcat search
La commare o raccoglitrice : divisa in tre libri : in questa ultima  
editione corretta e accresciuta di due trattati ([Reprod.]) / Scipion  
Mercurio
Author:	Girolamo Mercurio
Publisher:	1686 per Gio. Francesco Valuasense (in Venetia)
Edition/Format:	  Internet resource : Italian

Internet archive shows a copy

La commare o' raccoglitrice. Dell' eccellentissimo Signor Scipion  
Mercvrio, filosofo, medico, e cittadino Romano. Divisa in tre' libri -  
Mercurio, Girolamo, d. 1615
Head- and tailpieces; initials; side notes

http://www.archive.org/details/lacommareoraccog00merc
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There are a number of ways to search this in general.

http://www.archive.org/details/medicalheritagelibrary

The Medical Heritage Library (MHL) is a digital curation collaborative  
among some of the world’s leading medical libraries.


Worldcat [www.worldcat.org]
allows one to tailor a search so you could search under maternal  
health diet history which produces 431 items.

National Library of Medicine is available
A search there on medieval history maternal health diet is 10,000 plus  
items.  You'll have to choose your keywords and tailor those searches  
down to very specific terms.

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as for what books were published first in Italy and then say in France  
and England, my choice to do this would be to check EEBO or the ESTC  
and search there.
 From the ESTC [http://estc.bl.uk

There's an edition of Mauriceau from 1688 titled
De mulierum prægnantium, parturientium, et puerperam morbis.

What's valuable is the note states: First published in 1668 in French  
under title: "Des maladies des femmes grosses et accouchées".

And it gives you all the subject headings to look under to locate  
other volumes.

Obstetrics -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800.

Infants (Newborn) -- Diseases -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800.

Natural Childbirth -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800.

Perinatology -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800.

Pregnancy -- Complications -- 17th century -- Early works to 1800

This is getting long. I'll finish up in another post

Johnnae

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