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THE WIFE’S HANDBOOK: How a Woman should Order Herself during Pregnancy and after Delivery

Dr Henry Arthur Allbutt
1920s era ‘fifty-sixth’ edition of the earliest book by an English doctor to describe contraceptive methods, a publication that saw its author st… Read more
Published in 1922 by Bentley and Co.
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THE WIFE’S HANDBOOK: How a Woman should Order Herself during Pregnancy and after Delivery by Dr Henry Arthur Allbutt

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1920s era ‘fifty-sixth’ edition of the earliest book by an English doctor to describe contraceptive methods, a publication that saw its author struck off from the medical register.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: The book is bound in printed wrappers, no date but OCLC suggests 1922. A little dog-earring to early leaves, otherwise unmarked. One terminal advertisement leaf. Collates [2] pp82. Five institutional copies at Edge Hill, Royal College Nursing 2xBL and Uni California. Despite being repeatedly reprinted all editions of this book are very scarce, this one being no exception.

HISTORY Dr. Henry Allbutt was a Leeds doctor who helped to organise the Malthusian League aimed at planned population control. Allbutt fell foul of the medical profession for advocating birth control and this publication led to his prosecution by the General Medical Council; in 1887 he was struck off the Medical Register. This censored edition gives a sense of the outrage that greeted its publication.


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Publisher Bentley and Co
Date published 1922
Subject 1 Books
Product code 8666


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