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Routledge
Gives readers an understanding of midwives, midwifery students, and women in labour. This twelve-volume collection comprises pamphlets, treatises, lectures for midwifery students, texts on the establishment of lying-in hospitals, and catalogues of obstetrical apparatuses collected by male-midwives.
Volume 1 Popular Culture and Medicine Nicholas Culpeper, A Directory for Midwives (1651) Robert Barret, A Companion for Midwives, Child-Bearing Women, and Nurses (1699) A. M., A Rich Closet of Physical Secrets (1652) Some Observations Made upon the Maldiva Nut (1694) J. P., The Fruitful Wonder (1674) ‘To Ladies and All Others of the Female Sex’ Announcement of the Birth of Monsters Advertisement selling Medicine to Cure Barrenness Advertisement by Stephen Draper The Cruel Midwife (1693) The Man-Midwife Unmasqu’d (1734) Midwifery and the Law At the Council-Chamber in Whitehall (1688) The Trial of a Cause between Richard Maddox, Gent. Plaintif , and Dr. M—y, Defendant, Physician, and Man-Midwife (1754) The Maternal Imagination: The Daniel Turner–James Blondel Controversy Daniel Turner, ‘Of Spots and Marks … Imprest upon the Skin of the Foetus, by the Force of the Mother’s Fancy’, in De Morbis Cutaneis, 3rd edn (1726) [James Augustus Blondel], The Strength of Imagination in Pregnant Women Examin’d (1727) Daniel Turner, ‘A Defence of the XIIth Chapter’, in A Discourse Concerning Gleets (1729) James Augustus Blondel, The Power of the Mother’s Imagination over the Foetus Examin’d (1729) Daniel Turner, The Force of the Mother’s Imagination upon her Foetus in Utero, Still Farther Considered (1730) John Henry Mauclerc, The Power of Imagination in Pregnant Women Discussed (1740)
Biography
Pam Lieske
