A manual for midwives and monthly nurses / by Fleetwood Churchill.

  • Churchill, Fleetwood, 1808-1878.
Date:
1867
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Credit: A manual for midwives and monthly nurses / by Fleetwood Churchill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    children themselves, and having assisted their neighbours in their troubles. I do not appear here as the advocate of female practitioners; but of the necessity, if there is to be such a class of persons, of their knowing something of their business. With this view, I have prepared this little manual, in which I have endeavoured to teach as much as a midwife in Great Britain need know, considering the limitation of her practice; without giving an amount of information which must lead to mischief, by tempting her to interfere in cases for which she is not competent. With this view, I have treated fully of natural labor, and have entered into minute details as to conva- lescence and the management of the child. But upon the various deviations from natural labor, which demand the aid of the accoucheur, I have only given such information as will enable a mid- wife to recognize them in time to obtain needful assistance. As all midwives act as monthly nurses or nursetenders, I have thought it useful to de- scribe, with considerable minuteness, their dtities in this capacity.