The Province of Midwives in the Practice of their Art Instructing them in the timely knowledge of such difficulties as require the assistance of Men, for the preservation of Mother and Child; very necessary for the perusal of all the sex interested in the subject, and interspersed with some New and Useful Observations.
by William Clark
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About this eBook
- Author
- Clark, William, 1698-1780?
- Credits
- Produced by RichardW and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- RG: Medicine: Gynecology and obstetrics
- Subject
- Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 52086
- Release Date
- May 16, 2016
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Province of Midwives in the Practice of their Art, by William Clark, M. D. 1698–ca. 1780.
- 2.ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.
- 3.Untitled
- 4.CHAPTER I. The DESIGN.
- 5.CHAPTER II.
- 6.CHAPTER III. The Symptoms preceeding Natural Labours.
- 7.CHAPTER IV. Of SITUATION.
- 8.CHAPTER V. Concerning TOUCHING.
- 9.CHAPTER VI. Of a natural Birth, and the Office of the Midwife.
- 10.CHAPTER VII. The Difficulty from the Membranes.
- 11.CHAPTER VIII. Difficulties occasion’d by the Navel-String.
- 12.CHAPTER IX. Difficulties from the Placenta or Secundines.
- 13.CHAPTER X. Difficulties attending the Contraction, or Ill-site of the Inward Orifice.
- 14.CHAPTER XI. Difficulties attending a wrong Position of the Child ’s Head.
- 15.CHAPTER XII. Difficulties from other ill Positions of the Infant.
- 16.CHAPTER XIII. Of TWINS.
- 17.CHAPTER XIV. Of a Dead Child.
- 18.CHAPTER XV. The necessary Care of a Mother and Child.
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