A complete practice of midwifery : consisting of upwards of forty cases or observations in that valuable art, selected from many others, in the course of a very extensive practice. And interspersed with many necessary cautions and useful instructions, proper to be observed in the most dangerous and critical exigencies, as well when the delivery is difficult in its own nature, as when it becomes so by the rashness or ignorance of unexperienc'd pretenders. Recommended to all female practitioners in an art so important to the lives and well-being of the sex / By Sarah Stone, of Piccadilly.

  • Stone, Sarah, active 1737.
Date:
1737
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A complete practice of midwifery : consisting of upwards of forty cases or observations in that valuable art, selected from many others, in the course of a very extensive practice. And interspersed with many necessary cautions and useful instructions, proper to be observed in the most dangerous and critical exigencies, as well when the delivery is difficult in its own nature, as when it becomes so by the rashness or ignorance of unexperienc'd pretenders. Recommended to all female practitioners in an art so important to the lives and well-being of the sex / By Sarah Stone, of Piccadilly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    her having luch a Bearing-down io long before her Labour, and the (Length of her Pains, that caufed the bottom of the Womb to follow the Child. The realon of my being (o plain in this Obfervation is, that a few Years before this Accident happened to me., a Midwife was very much blam’d on account of a Woman that died in this cafe, in lefs than two hours after her Child was born, the Midwife taking the inverted Womb for another Child ; and (he endeavouring to deliver her, as Ihe told her friends about her, till the Wo¬ man fainted, and then a Man- midwife was lent for ; and he not being at home, they called another, and they both met near together at the Wo¬ man’s