Tokology

A fascinating feminist medical work written by Alice Stockham, illustrated and informing on all sorts of ailments of womenkind. With chapters on motherhood, from painless children, conception, pregnancy and symptoms, maladies for young infants, post-partum illnesses, dietetics and female illnesses.Alice Bunker Stockham was an American gynaecologist and obstetrician, only the fifth woman to become a doctor in the USA. She promoted gender equality, birth control and equal sexual satisfaction for man and wife, as well as speaking out against corsets, tobacco and alcohol. Stockham was also a friend to Leo Tolstoy.Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of the author, as well as one plate, which is loose but present.Containing a booklet in a pocket at the rear of the work with a list of plates and the illustrations themselves.The second edition of this important work.A fascinating piece of the history of female-led medicine. In the publisher's original full buckram binding. Externally generally smart, with a little bumping to the head and tail of the spine discolouring the cloth, as well as the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are a little age-toned, with the odd mark.