The Province of Midwives in the Practice of their Art

By William Clark

Published in the 18th century, this is an influential work on Gynecology and obstetrics. It was written mainly for the help of midwives to conduct their tasks with more efficiency. A midwife is a health expert who supervises mothers and newborns during childbirth, a specialization known as midwifery. Through this work, the writer aimed to give the new or aspiring people in this profession some additional information that might be useful for them to perform this crucial job.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Jun 13, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547058021

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William Clark

The Province of Midwives in the Practice of their Art

EAN 8596547058021

DigiCat, 2022

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Table of Contents

CHAPTER I. The DESIGN.

CHAPTER II.

CHAPTER III. The Symptoms preceeding Natural Labours.

CHAPTER IV. Of SITUATION.

CHAPTER V. Concerning TOUCHING.

CHAPTER VI. Of a natural Birth, and the Office of the Midwife.

CHAPTER VII. The Difficulty from the Membranes.

CHAPTER VIII. Difficulties occasion’d by the Navel-String.

CHAPTER IX. Difficulties from the Placenta or Secundines.

CHAPTER X. Difficulties attending the Contraction, or Ill-site of the Inward Orifice.

CHAPTER XI. Difficulties attending a wrong Position of the Child ’s Head.

CHAPTER XII. Difficulties from other ill Positions of the Infant.

CHAPTER XIII. Of TWINS.

CHAPTER XIV. Of a Dead Child.

CHAPTER XV. The necessary Care of a Mother and Child.

CHAPTER I. The DESIGN.

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HE Case of Child-bearing Women is very lamentable, in the Country especially, by Reason of the Ignorance and Unskilfulness of Midwives; for by their Negligence and perverse Management, many Mothers and Children are destroyed, to the great Misfortune of particular Families, as well as of the Publick, at a Time when it suffers by the Loss of useful Hands, from too many other Causes. It were therefore to be wished, that all Midwives were so far appris’d of their Duty, as to be able to distinguish between Cases within their Abilities, and such Difficulties as may occasion the Loss of the Mother, or Child, or both, for Want of necessary Assistance.

They who intend to practice Midwifry in

PARIS, are oblig’d to attend anatomical Lectures and Dissections, that their Judgments may be inform’d, by the Knowledge of the Structure of the Body, for an Undertaking so hazardous in ignorant Hands.

London, at present, affords equal Advantages of Information; for the anatomical Wax-work, with suitable Lectures, might furnish as good a Qualification, with less Offence than real Dissections; and there are not wanting those who professedly instruct both Sexes by mechanical Demonstrations.

And for the future, it is to be hoped, there will be no Necessity for Men to have Recourse to

PARIS for Observation, since we have Infirmaries at Home for the Accommodation of Women in Child-bed; and tho’ they are expos’d naked to the Eye in the Hotel de Dieu, it must be confess’d, that the fundamental Rules of the Art are not built on what the Eye of the Observer can possibly discover