An abstract of midwifry, for the use of the Lying-in Infirmary. [-A single lecture in midwifry, on the glass machine. -The institution and oeconomy of the ... Infirmary] / [Sir Richard Manningham].

  • Manningham, Richard, Sir, 1690-1759
Date:
1744
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Credit: An abstract of midwifry, for the use of the Lying-in Infirmary. [-A single lecture in midwifry, on the glass machine. -The institution and oeconomy of the ... Infirmary] / [Sir Richard Manningham]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3* ] 4 the Study ; especially fmce the Means of obtaining that Knowledge 4 is now come home to them ; and as they, as Phyficians, are properly * qualify’d for relieving the many complicated Illneffes which do often * accompany the Difeafes of Women going with Child, and in Child- c bed. It is, I think, efpecially neceffary for inch young phyficians c who intend to refide in the Country ; though it may not perhaps be 4 thought altogether fo generally neceffary in this City, which is to well * provided with prudent and learned Phyficians, whofe Advice may at 4 ail Times fo eafily be had, 4 And here indeed I cannot but obferve, that the Women them- * /elves, and thofe about them, are often much to blame, in neglecting * to fend for proper Advice in the various Illneffes which may and of- 4 ten do accompany their Pregnancy ; under a mijlaken Notion, that 4 nothing can be done for them till after they are brought-to-bed ; 4 or, that being brought-to-bed, thofe Diforders will be removed of 1 courfe: On the contrary, unlefs they are altogether owing to the 4 Pregnancy, they do very much add to the Pain and Difficulty of the 4 Labour itfelf, and too often become fatal in the End ; whereas, 4 were tfaefe Diforders properly treated before the Labour comes on, the 1 Labour would then be lefs painful and difficult, and many Lives 6 would beJ'aved, which now are lofl, through this mijlaken Notion and 4 fatal NegleB. e As hitherto the due Knowledge of the Pra5lice of Midwifry could c not eafily be obtained without going into foreign Countries, and as * that fuited the Affairs and Circumftances of few fo it could not 4 reasonably be expected that our Women Mid wives efpecially, fhould 4 be fo properly and fully qualify’d as they ought, for the skilful 4 Performance of their Bufmefs ; on which Account, ’tis greatly to be 4 feared, many of the better Sort of Women, as well as the meaner, 4 have greatly (offer’d in labouring of Child, through the almoft una- 4 voidable Infufficiency of the Knowledge of many of our Midwives: 4 But having now proper Opportunities of InffruCtion, they will, I 4 think /