Treatise on the Art of Midwifery
by Elizabeth Nihell
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- Author
- Nihell, Elizabeth, 1723-1776
- Title
- A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery Setting Forth Various Abuses Therein, Especially as to the Practice With Instruments: the Whole Serving to Put All Rational Inquirers in a Fair Way of Very Safely Forming Their Own Judgement Upon the Question; Which It Is Best to Employ, in Cases of Pregnancy and Lying-in, a Man-midwife; Or, a Midwife
- Credits
- Produced by Richard Tonsing 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
- Midwifery -- Early works to 1800
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 60334
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60334
- Release Date
- September 20, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A TREATISE ON THE ART of MIDWIFERY . SETTING FORTH Various Abuses therein, Especially as to the Practice with Instruments : THE WHOLE Serving to put all Rational Inquirers in a fair Way of very safely forming their own Judgement upon the Question ; Which it is best to employ, In Cases of Pregnancy and Lying-in , A MAN-MIDWIFE; OR, A MIDWIFE.
- 2.TO All Fathers , Mothers and likely soon to be Either .
- 3.PREFACE.
- 4.CONTENTS OF Part the First .
- 5.A TREATISE ON MIDWIFERY. — Objection the First. — ANSWER. — Objection the Second. — ANSWER. — Objection the Third. — ANSWER. — Objection the Fourth. — ANSWER. — Objection the Fifth. — ANSWER. — Objection the Sixth. — ANSWER. — Objection the Seventh. — ANSWER. — Objection the Eighth. — ANSWER. — Objection the Ninth. — ANSWER. — Objection the Tenth. — ANSWER. — Objection the Eleventh. — ANSWER. — Objection the Twelfth. — ANSWER. — Objection the Thirteenth. — ANSWER. — Objection the Fourteenth. — ANSWER. — Conclusion of the First Part .
- 6.A TREATISE OF MIDWIFERY. Part the Second . — Introduction. — Of Deliveries . — Observation 174. — Observation 174, of the same Mr. De la Motte. — Observation 176, (of M. De la Motte) — Of DIFFICULT and SEVERE Cases. — Of Touching . — Of the OBLIQUITY of the Uterus . — Of that labor in which the head of the fœtus remains hitched in the passage, the body being entirely come out of the uterus. — When the head of the fœtus presents itself foremost, but sticks in the passage. — Conclusion of the Second and Last Part .
- 7.TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES
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