The proposed formation of an inferior order of midwifery practitioners, or, a plea for the supplying of the highest medical aid to all women during pregnancy and childbirth. / by Robert Reid Rentoul.

  • Rentoul, Robert Reid, -1925.
Date:
1894
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Credit: The proposed formation of an inferior order of midwifery practitioners, or, a plea for the supplying of the highest medical aid to all women during pregnancy and childbirth. / by Robert Reid Rentoul. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    they demand the formation and registration of an inferior order of medical and of surgical practitioners ; including unqualified assistants. I am fully aware there are a few practitioners who have a strong personal aversion to midwifery work. But there are also practitioners who dislike surgical work. All the same, such as do object to surgical work do not propose to establish an inferior order of surgical practitioners. In the same way it must not be permitted there should be two distinct orders of zvovien midwifery practitioners, one singly qualified, partially educated, and so semi-ignorant ; and the other fully educated in medicine, surgery, and midwifery. It is to be earnestly hoped the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom will strenuously oppose this threatened repeal of the Medical Act, and defend the progressive and higher system of a full and complete medical training for all practitioners ; and that the Medical Council will, in future, and after making such Rule, hold these practitioners who wrongfully grant certifi- cates in midwifery, or in medicine, or in surgery, or in massage and electrical treatment—certificates which lead a large portion of the public to believe that they qualify the holder to practise midwifery, medicine, or surgery— to be guilty of infamous conduct in a professional respect, and will strike their names off 'the Medical Register. At a Special General Meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Branch of the British Medical Association—called after fourteen days notice specially to discuss this question—