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 is a 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 Cinahl finds just those five.
The article in the American Journal of Public Health (in PubMed Central, so open access) includes an illustration from her book of a shoulder presentation, and a mention of a two handed rotation of the baby in the uterus, presumably the Bourgeouis-Siegemundin Manoeuvre referred to above.
The third article about her is in Midwifery Today.
If you are at the University of Leicester you can read a translation of her book "The court midwife". If you are not, and you have access to a Library, you should enquire there.
The two articles I found about the manoeuvre are found in this PubMed search. That will find any others that have been added since I wrote this.
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