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A midwife's tale : the life of Martha Ballard, based on her diary, 1785-1812 / Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1990Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 444 p. : maps ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0394568443
  • 9780394568447
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Online version:: Midwife's tale.DDC classification:
  • 974.1/6 20
  • B 20
LOC classification:
  • F29.H15 U47 1990
NLM classification:
  • WZ 100
Contents:
Introduction: a great sea A going -- August 1787: Exceeding dangeroulsly ill -- September 1799: warpt a piece -- October 1789: Mrs Foster has sworn a Rape on a number of men -- November 1792: Matrimonial writes -- December 1797: Birth 50. Birth 51 -- January 1796: find my house up in arms -- February 1801: A desection performed -- March 1804: what a scean had I to go at Evening -- April 1806: Polly Purington here -- May 1809: Workt in my gardin -- Epilogue -- Appendix: medicinal ingredients mentioned in Martha Ballard's diary
Summary: Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier
Item type: Book
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library HISTORY 974.16/ULR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 29844100000676

Cover title: Martha Ballard, her diary

Includes bibliographical references (p. 364-411) and index

Introduction: a great sea A going -- August 1787: Exceeding dangeroulsly ill -- September 1799: warpt a piece -- October 1789: Mrs Foster has sworn a Rape on a number of men -- November 1792: Matrimonial writes -- December 1797: Birth 50. Birth 51 -- January 1796: find my house up in arms -- February 1801: A desection performed -- March 1804: what a scean had I to go at Evening -- April 1806: Polly Purington here -- May 1809: Workt in my gardin -- Epilogue -- Appendix: medicinal ingredients mentioned in Martha Ballard's diary

Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier

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