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Midwifery - England - Early works to 1800

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A letter to William Smellie, M.D. containing critical and practical remarks upon his treatise on the Theory and practice of midwifery. By John Burton, M.D. Wherein the various gross mistakes and dangerous methods of practice Mentioned and recommended by that writer, are fully demonstrated and generally corrected. Likewise the several Advantages or Dangers, to both Motner and Child, attending the Turning the last in the Womb to extract by the Feet, or that accrue from the Use of each particular Kind of Instrument, employ'd in delivering Women, are shewn in a more ample Manner than heretofore. Being as an Appendix, to both the above-mentioned Authors Treatises on Midwifery; absolutely necessary to be perused by all who have read the former's Book, or attended his Lectures with a View to Practice. To which is affixed a Copper-Plate, representing several Sorts of Instruments used by the Ancients, with the Fillet as improved by the Author thereof.
Burton, John, 1710-1771.Date: MDCCLIII. [1753]
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A course of lectures, on the Theory and Practice of midwifry, by William Rowley, Surgeon, in which Every thing material to the True Knowledge and Practice of the Art will be fully explained and clearly demonstrated, by a proper Apparatus on a new Construction, so formed as in every Case to imitate real Nature. Of the Form, Structure, and Parts of the Female Pelvis. Of the Organs of Generation and the Doctrine of Conception. The Pathology and Treatment of the various Diseases of Child-Bearing Women and Children. A Comparative View of the Antient, and Modern Practice. The whole will be illustrated by such Preparations, as are useful in each Lecture; with Practical Observations and Improvements, but in particular by real Labours.
Rowley, William, 1742-1806.Date: 1780?]
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The danger and immodesty of the present too general custom of unnecessarily employing men-midwives. Proved incontestibly in the letters which lately appeared under the signature of a man-midwife. With an introduction, a treatise on the milk, and an appendix. By the author.
Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]
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The danger and immodesty of the present too general custom of unnecessarily employing men-midwives. Proved incontestibly in the letters which lately appeared under the signature of a man-midwife. With an introduction, a treatise on the milk, and an appendix. By the author.
Date: MDCCLXXII. [1772]

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Midwifery - England - Early works to 1800

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The danger and immodesty of the present too general custom of unnecessarily employing men-midwives. Proved incontestibly in the letters which lately appeared under the signature of a man-midwife. With an introduction, a treatise on the milk, and an appendix. By the author.

The danger and immodesty of the present too general custom of unnecessarily employing men-midwives. Proved incontestibly in the letters which lately appeared under the signature of a man-midwife. With an introduction, a treatise on the milk, and an appendix. By the author.