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  • Association for promoting registration of midwives
  • Speculum matricis : or, The expert midwives handmaid / catechistically composed by James Wolveridge.
  • Understand your kick chart / produced by midwives on the W.N.B. 998 course in Mid-Glamorgan.
  • The midwives book. Or the whole art of midwifery discovered. Directing childbearing women how to behave themselves / [Jane Sharp].
  • The midwives book. Or the whole art of midwifery discovered. Directing childbearing women how to behave themselves / [Jane Sharp].
  • A directory for midwives: or a guide for women, in their conception, bearing, and suckling their children ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • A directory for midwives: or a guide for women, in their conception, bearing, and suckling their children ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • A directory for midwives: or a guide for women, in their conception, bearing, and suckling their children ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • A directory for midwives: or a guide for women, in their conception, bearing, and suckling their children ... / [Nicholas Culpeper].
  • Man-midwives attempting to deliver a monstrous woman representing the Dutch National Convention. Etching attributed to James Gillray, 1796, after David Hess.
  • Ivory anatomical model of a pregnant female with removable parts possibly used by obstetric specialists or midwives to provide reassurance for pregnant women. Possibly German
  • Ivory anatomical model of a pregnant female with removable parts possibly used by obstetric specialists or midwives to provide reassurance for pregnant women. Possibly German
  • Ivory anatomical model of a pregnant female with removable parts possibly used by obstetric specialists or midwives to provide reassurance for pregnant women. Possibly German
  • Ivory anatomical model of a pregnant female with removable parts possibly used by obstetric specialists or midwives to provide reassurance for pregnant women. Possibly German
  • Ivory anatomical model of a pregnant female with removable parts possibly used by obstetric specialists or midwives to provide reassurance for pregnant women. Possibly German
  • Ivory anatomical model of a pregnant female with removable parts possibly used by obstetric specialists or midwives to provide reassurance for pregnant women. Possibly German
  • Ivory anatomical model of a pregnant female with removable parts possibly used by obstetric specialists or midwives to provide reassurance for pregnant women. Possibly German
  • Ivory anatomical model of a pregnant female with removable parts possibly used by obstetric specialists or midwives to provide reassurance for pregnant women. Possibly German
  • Hebrew midwives refusing to kill male babies after being ordered to do so by the Pharoah of Egypt. Engraving by P.P. Bouché after G. Freeman, ca. 1694.
  • Mary Toft (Tofts) appearing to give birth to rabbits in the presence of several surgeons and man-midwives sent from London to examine her. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1726.
  • Mary Toft (Tofts) appearing to give birth to rabbits in the presence of several surgeons and man-midwives sent from London to examine her. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1726.
  • Saint Raymund Nonnatus (31st August).Born in 1180 (?). Founder of the Order of Our Lady of Rnsom, died in 1240. He gave himself as a hostage to redeem slaves from the Moors. He is the patron of children and midwives. Invoked for pregnant women and against puerperal fever ( from non-natus!). Represented bearing a monstrance or a palm with three crowns on it.
  • The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labors. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. Illustrated with divers fair figures, newly and very correctly engraven in copper. A work very much more perfect than any yet extant in English: very necessary for chirurgeons and midwives practising this art / Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. Translated by Hugh Chamberlen ... By whom this second ed. it [sic] reviewed, corrected, and enlarged, with the addition of the author's anatomy.
  • The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labors. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. Illustrated with divers fair figures, newly and very correctly engraven in copper. A work very much more perfect than any yet extant in English: very necessary for chirurgeons and midwives practising this art / Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. Translated by Hugh Chamberlen ... By whom this second ed. it [sic] reviewed, corrected, and enlarged, with the addition of the author's anatomy.
  • The accomplished ladies rich closet of rarities: or, the ingenius gentlewoman and servant-maids delightful companion. Containing many excellent things for the accomplishment of the female sex ... (1.) The art of distilling. (2.) Making artificial wines. (3.) Making syrups. ... (8) To make beautifying-waters, oyls, pomatums musk-balls, perfumes, &c. (9) Physical and chyrurgical receipts. (10.) The duty of a wet nurse; and to know and cure diseases in children, &c. ... (14.) The accomplished dairy-maids directions, &c. (15.) The judicious midwives directions, how women in travail before and after delivery ought to be used; as also the child; and what relates to the preservation of them both. To which is added a second part, containing directions for the guidance of a young gentlewomen. As to her behavior & seemly deportment / [J.S. (John Shirley)].
  • The accomplished ladies rich closet of rarities: or, the ingenius gentlewoman and servant-maids delightful companion. Containing many excellent things for the accomplishment of the female sex ... (1.) The art of distilling. (2.) Making artificial wines. (3.) Making syrups. ... (8) To make beautifying-waters, oyls, pomatums musk-balls, perfumes, &c. (9) Physical and chyrurgical receipts. (10.) The duty of a wet nurse; and to know and cure diseases in children, &c. ... (14.) The accomplished dairy-maids directions, &c. (15.) The judicious midwives directions, how women in travail before and after delivery ought to be used; as also the child; and what relates to the preservation of them both. To which is added a second part, containing directions for the guidance of a young gentlewomen. As to her behavior & seemly deportment / [J.S. (John Shirley)].
  • A nurse or midwife reading a thermometer and wiping it after use with cotton wool. Lithograph.
  • A nurse or midwife reading a thermometer and wiping it after use with cotton wool. Lithograph.
  • An exhausted woman being held by friends after just giving birth to twins. Pen drawing after G.F.M. Mazzola, il Parmigianino.
  • The birth of John the Baptist. Etching by D. Cunego, 1769, after L. Carracci.