Syllabus of lectures on the theory and practice of midwifery.

  • John Leake
Date:
1782
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    and continue for one Month, from time to time, throughout the Year, as advertifed in the Public Papers. The Pupils being introduced at the Hofpital, in rotation, accor- ding to the date of their commencement at Lectures, fuch as enter their Names early will attend Labours fo much the fooner, and have more Time and Opportunity to fee the Variety ofPra&ice in laborious and preter- natural Cafes, &c. Before the Eftablifhment of ’Phis Hofpital, in which near Five Phoufand Women have been delivered ; it was extremely difagreeable to attend La- bors at a great diftance, among the lowefi Clafs of People, in Garrets and Cellars, where a number of Pupils were obliged to attend the fame Patient; From the indecency of this Method, they were often expofed to Infults, and for all their Trouble, could acquire no true Pradical Knowledge; becaufe, where fo many were prefent at the fame Labor, befides the con- fulion it occafioned, only one of them could properly be faid to deliver the Patient ; and as they only touched her by turns, not one of the whole Number could exaEily know the natural Progrefs of the Labour from beginning to end; on the contrary, every Pupil, after his Introdu&ion at this Hofpital, is called fngly to the Labors, and attends her with the fame Decorum as if fhe was a private Patient of his own. Hence it muft be evident, that a Certificate of Attendance at this Public Hofpital will carry with it much more Credit and Confequence than that of being called to cafual Labours only. Female l Female Pupils may be inftru&ed, and foon duly qualified for their own Pupils.] Practice, by being allowed to refide in the Hofpital. Farther Particulars may be known at the DoElor's Houfe, or at the Westminster Lying-in Hospital, near the Bridge’, which is cornmo- dioufly Jituated for the Attendance of Pupils, in a middle Space between St, Thomas's, St. George's, and St. Bartholomew's Hofpitals. S For
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