The woman as a family doctor

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Book cover of the 1905 edition
Example illustration: View of the larynx through the larynx mirror

The “golden women's book” The woman as a general practitioner with the subtitle A medical reference book for women appeared for the first time in 1901 and in 1913 had a circulation of millions.

The universal reference work gave comprehensive advice on all everyday questions of female life: body, mind, lifestyle, nutrition, health, hygiene, marriage, children and morals. Taboo subjects such as masturbation , homosexuality , adultery, contraception, frigidity, and infertility were addressed. Not always and everything in today's sense, but surprisingly modern and open-minded for the time, in the sense of the life reform propagated around the turn of the century before last .

Author

The author Anna Fischer-Dückelmann (1856–1917) was the daughter of the Austrian military doctor Friedrich Dückelmann and married to the philosopher Arnold Fischer. As the mother of three children, she began studying medicine in 1890 and received her doctorate in Zurich in 1896. From 1897 to 1914 she ran a doctor's practice for gynecology and paediatrics in Oberloschwitz near Dresden . When the World War broke out, she moved to Monte Verità near Ascona in Ticino, the central vanishing point of the dropouts, reformers and do- gooders at the time, where she had acquired a property near the local naturopathic institution on a cooperative basis as early as 1913 .

Versions (selection)

The committed author herself revised and modernized the book several times, and it was also imitated by other authors. It was one of the most successful pioneering works of sexual education , a primer on hygiene and health care, exemplary in naturopathy , which the author eagerly propagated.

The full title was (1913): The woman as a family doctor. A medical reference book on health care and medicine in the family with special consideration of gynecological and childhood diseases, obstetrics and child care

A selection of the most important issues:

  • Millions anniversary edition : Süddeutsches Verlags-Institut, Munich 1913, XII + 1024 pages with 496 original illustrations, 38 chromolithographed plates and a portrait of the author
    • after 1918 with a 20-page appendix What the war taught us. New experiences in the areas of nutrition, the follow-up treatment of war injured persons and population growth
  • Third Million Edition : New Third Million Edition with Introductions to German Race Care , ed. v. EA Müller u. O. Väth, 1040 p., With 402 original illustrations, 47 black and colored plates and a model of the human body that can be dismantled, Süddeutscher Verlag, Stuttgart (after 1930)
  • Volksausgabe : Completely revised popular edition of the 1929 edition by EA Müller with the subtitle A medical adviser for women in healthy and sick days , with numerous illustrations on black and colored, partly detachable boards, together with a general index with a foreign medical dictionary, Süddeutscher Verlag, Stuttgart 1950 (Julius Müller successor), 640 pp.
  • New big anniversary edition : Newly edited by EA Mueller. With an addition: How do I look. The male and female body in 16 colored illustrations , some of which can be dismantled , Süddeutscher Verlag, Stuttgart 1951, 924 pp.
  • New edition 1979 : revised by Hans-Jürgen Lewitzka-Reitner and G. Leibold, Falken, Niedernhausen 1979, 808 pp.

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