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SIEGEMUNDIN, Justine [DITTRICHIN] (1650 – 1705)

1650 – 1705

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1690 CE

#6149

Die Chur-Brandenburgische Hoff-Wehe-Mutter.

With Mauriceau, Justine Siegemundin was responsible for introducing the practice of puncturing the amniotic sac to arrest hemorrhage in placenta praevia. She was midwife to the Court of the Elector of Brandenburg, and…