Justine Siegemundin

Justine Siegemund (1636-1705), midwife,was the Google Doodle for today, 28th March 2023.  When young, she was misdiagnosed as pregnant when in fact she had a prolapsed uterus, and her experiences led her to train and practice as a midwife.  She was Court Midwife in Berlin, in which post she delivered royal babies, and was invited to write a training manual for other midwives, the first medical book in German to be written by a woman, published in 1690.  Searches in Cinahl and PubMed with variations of her name (Siegemundin, and different spellings of her first name) find just a handful of articles.In PubMed, siegemund j[ps] finds 2, one of which has her first name as Justina.  siegemund[tiab] finds those two as well.siegemund AND justin* in Cinahl finds three (two are the same item).  One of them,the article in the American Journal of Public Health (which I used when writing the opening paragraph above) has the name Siegemundin.Expanding the search in PubMed to siegemund[tiab] OR siegemundin[tiab] finds five articles, two of which describe a manoeuvre called the Bourgeouis-Siegemundin Manoeuvre.  Another isa historical article in Polish, published in Ginekologia Polska, whose original language title has the name Justyne Siegemundin, and whose abstract describes the " Siegemundin-Handgriff " or " Gedoppelter Handgriff " ( " double hold " ) and credits this to her book of 1690.  Searching siegemund* AND just* in C...
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