Marie Boivin
Marie Victorine Anne Boivin (also falsely: Victoire ) ( born April 9, 1773 in Montreuil, † May 16, 1841 in Paris ) was a French midwife. It was viewed as the most important woman healer of their time.
Life
When Marie Anne Gillain she was born in Montreuil near Versailles. In a monastery in Etampes she was trained and attracted the attention of Madame Élisabeth princess up. After the destruction of the monastery during the French Revolution, she learned anatomy and the art of midwifery. 1797 she married the official Louis Boivin, who fathered her daughter and died early. She was a midwife in a hospital in 1800 and 1801 its Head. In 1802 it moved Interior Minister Jean -Antoine Chaptal to a midwifery school in the mother's Hospice ( Hospice de la Gynaecology ) from Paris to found, and to adapt the public school curricula.
After the death of her daughter, she was deputy director of the Paris mother Hospice, under the widely recognized midwife Marie Louise Duges Lachappelle. It came about 1813 to break with this, and so was Boivin 1814 Deputy Director of the General Hospital ( Hôpital général) of Seine -et- Oise. It launched in 1815 a field hospital and then home in Bordeaux, the mother Hospice and the Royal Hospital ( Maison Royale de Santé ).
It improved the surgical instruments of obstetrics ( including Pelvimeter, vaginal, etc.) and has been recognized by doctors as a luminary in their area. She was the first that began the stethoscope to listen to the fetal heartbeat. With Professor Duges de Montpellier she wrote 1833-1837 a work on uterine diseases, which replaced the standard work for 150 years before being used. Even her 1812 published book on the art of birth had already become a recognized manual of obstetrics. She wrote and published also other internationally recognized Essays on Women's Health.
Princely courts - including the Empress of Russia - they courted in vain, so that Boivin practicing with them. As a patriot Boivin was bitter that she was not recognized by the French Academy of Science and its highest honors came from abroad.
She died in poverty despite their fame after a long illness, which she drew upon in 1840 and prevented their further professional practice. The cause of the disease could not be diagnosed correctly.
Bibliography
- Mémorial de l'art of Accouchements ( The art of birth ), from 1812 in several editions. online: Mémorial de l'art of accouchemens, ou Principes sur la pratique de l' fondés Hospice de la Gynaecology de Paris et sur celle of plus célèbres praticiens nationaux et étrangers in the Google Book Search, 3rd edition. Méquignon, Paris 1827
Honors
- It was in 1814 awarded the Golden Medal of Merit civil Prussia.
- She received in 1827 an honorary doctorate from the University of Marburg.
- She was an honorary member of the Royal Society of Medical Sciences in Bordeaux.
- According to her, a Venus crater was named.