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Maternity nursing

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  • Nurse Tremlow (name unconfirmed), a monthly nurse to gentry and royal households, in retirement, with photographs of her employers. Photograph, 19--.
  • A monthly nurse, who looks after a mother and a newborn baby for the first month after the birth. Wood engraving by Orrin Smith, ca. 1840, after Kenny Meadows.
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Catalogue

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    A manual of obstetric nursing / by Marian Humfrey.

    | Date: [1894-1895]
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    Gynæcological nursing / by G. A. Hawkins-Ambler.

    Hawkins-Ambler, George A. (George Arthur), active 1900. | Date: 1900
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    The domestic instructor in midwifery : containing directions for the proper treatment of sexual diseases of women; for the management of pregnancy, labor, & child-bed; also, for the treatment of new-born infants. Compiled for the advantage and use of such as have not access to a physician / By Dr. George Denig.

    Denig, George. | Date: 1838
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    The roar behind the silence : why kindness, compassion and respect matter in maternity care / edited by Sheena Byrom & Soo Downe, [with contributions by 49 others].

    | Date: [2015]
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    A short manual for monthly nurses / by Charles J. Cullingworth.

    | Date: 1884
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