A. M. Mauriceau. The Married Woman’s Private Medical Companion. New York, 1847.
While his wife was serving time for manslaughter in connection with the abortion she performed on Maria Bodine, Lohman’s husband Charles (from whom his wife likely acquired her medical skills), in partnership with her brother, druggist Joseph F. Trow, published The Married Woman’s Private Medical Companion under the pseudonym “A. M. Mauriceau.” The slight volume was a promotional vehicle for the Lohmans’ practice and their line of contraceptives and abortifacients as well as an advice book about contraception and related topics. Appearing in at least nine editions, the book was part of growing genre of self-help literature that began appearing in the antebellum era and exploded after the Civil War. This copy bears the inscription, “Book, Bought April 22nd, 1848, of a Picture Peddler at 4/- +cheap at that.”
