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Elizabeth Nihell

English midwife, obstetrics writer and polemicist

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    La cause de l'humanité, référée au tribunal du bon sens et de la raison: ou traité sur les accouchemens par les femmes : oouvrage tres-utile aux sages-femmes, & tres-interessant pour les families / par Elizabeth Nihell, maitresse sage-femme; Traduit de l'anglois.

    Nihell, Elizabeth, 1723- | Date: 1771
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    A treatise on the art of midwifery. Setting forth various abuses therein, especially as to the practice with instruments: the whole serving to put all rational inquirers in a fair way of very safely forming their own judgment upon the question; which it is best to employ, in cases of pregnancy and lying-in, a man-midwife or, a midwife / By Mrs. Elizabeth Nihell, professed midwife.

    Nihell, Elizabeth, 1723- | Date: 1760

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