Midwifery - Great Britain - Early works to 1800
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Man-midwifery analyzed Or The tendency of that indecent and unnecessary practice detected and exposed. Addressed to John Ford, late surgeon and man-midwife at Bristol, but now a practitioner, in that way, in London.
Thicknesse, Philip, 1719-1792.Date: MDCCXC. [1790]- E-books
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Man-midwifery analysed: and the tendency of that practice detected and exposed . With a copper-plate representing an exact drawing, taken from the death, of a monster that was born in the year 1745; with a description at large of the said lusus naturæ.
Thicknesse, Philip, 1719-1792.Date: 1763- E-books
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Culpepper's compleat and experienced midwife In two parts. I. A guide for child-bearing women, in the time of their conception, bearing and suckling their children; with the best means of helping them, both in natural, and unnatural labours: together with suitable remedies for the various indispositions of new-born infants. II. Proper and safe remedies for the curing of those distempers that are incident to the female sex; and more especially those that are any obstruction to their bearing of children. A work far more perfect than any yet extant; and highly necessary for all surgeons, midwives, nurses, and child-bearing women. Made English by W.S. M.D.
Nicholas CulpeperDate: 1751