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 MidwifeNihell, Elizabeth
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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
Nihell, Elizabeth
Midwifery -- Early works to 1800; Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800
1. P. 11, changed “at the mercy of these excutioners” to “at the mercy
of these executioners”.
2. P. 19 and subsequent, changed “womens” to “women’s”. The authors
usage was inconsistent.
3. P. 30 and subsequent, changed “it’s” to “its” where possesive was
intended. The authors usage was inconsistent.
4. P. 156, changed “may be reduce” to “may be reduced”.
5. P. 171, changed “during some lisgering labor” to “during some
lingering labor”.
6. P. 173, changed “sometimes inseparably damaged” to “sometimes
irreparably damaged”.
7. P. 175, changed “very uncautions of concealing them” to “very
uncautious of concealing them”.
8. P. 208, changed “signs of abborrence” to “signs of abhorrence”.
9. P. 216, changed “ames” to “âmes”.
10. P. 220, changed “than in those antient times” to “that in those
antient times”.
11. P. 237, changed “elevées et ecartées, les pieds rapprochés des
fesses, et maintenus en cette situation par des aides dont on soit
sur. Levret, Utilite” to “élevées et écartées, les pieds
rapprochés des fesses, et maintenus en cette situation par des
aides dont on soit sûr. Levret, Utilité”.
12. P. 237, changed “arrétoit au precepte general” to “arrêtoit au
précepte général”.
13. P. 241, changed “inaminate things” to “inanimate things”.
14. P. 246, changed “ballanced by their incompetency” to “balanced by
their incompetency”.
15. P. 250, changed “evidently consist less” to “evidently consists
less”.
16. P. 253, changed “they cry down every instrumen of other
practitioners” to “they cry down every instrument of other
practitioners”.
17. P. 347, changed “diamatrically opposite” to “diametrically
opposite”.
18. Silently corrected typographical errors and variations in spelling.
19. Retained anachronistic, non-standard, and uncertain spellings as
printed.
20. Footnotes have been re-indexed using numbers and collected together
at the end of the last chapter.
21. Enclosed italics font in _underscores_.
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