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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 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

Name: 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
Author: Nihell, Elizabeth

Nihell, Elizabeth

Midwifery -- Early works to 1800; Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800

OBJ. XIII. _Prevalence of the Fashion_, 184.
   ANS. 184.
   _Parallel of error in the preference of men-midwives to that of
      bringing up of charity-children by hand_, 187.
   _Story of a woman ashamed of having been lain by a midwife_, 204.
   _Inoculation justified_, 207.
   _The greatest lady in Britain no example in favor of_ Accoucheurs,
      210.
   _Midwives formed by the men-practitioners liable to caution against
      them, and why_, 213.
   _Alarming danger of a scarcity of good midwives, to what owing_, 217.

 OBJ. XIV. FALSE-MODESTY, _that of the women, who prefer the
    practitioners of their own sex_, 219.
   ANS. 219.
   _Story of Agnodice and the Athenian women canvassed_, 219.
   _Dr. Smellie’s_ COMMANDMENT _to his pupils against immodesty_, 224.
   _No stress laid on the Rabbit-woman of Godalmin_, 225.
   _Attitude indecent, and to no end nor purpose_, 237.
   _A stone of more virtue than a man-midwife_, 239.

 CONCLUSION _of the_ FIRST PART, 244.


 PART the SECOND.

 _Containing various observations on the labors and delivery of lying-in
    women, including a description of the pretended necessity for the
    employing instruments_, INTRODUCTION, 249.

 _Of_ DELIVERIES, 256.
   _Story of the sudden death of a woman after delivery_, 261.
   _Accounted for_, 262.
   _Method of prevention_, 263.
   _Histeric medicines invented by the_ learned _men-practitioners, and
      examples of their insignificance_, 267.

 _Of_ DIFFICULT _and_ SEVERE _cases_, 277.
   _Divisions of them_, 279.
   _Profound ignorance of certain men-midwives_, 282.
   _Their avarice and cruelty set forth by a man-midwife_, 286.
   _Midwives incapable of such horrors_, 288.
   _The Crotchet used, and its horrid effects, exemplified in several
      stories_, 291.
   _A_ VOLUME _might be made of them, says a man-midwife_, 298.
   _Some instances of male-practice_, 304.

 _Of_ TOUCHING, 309.

 _Of the_ OBLIQUITY _of the_ UTERUS, 329.

 _Of the_ EXTRACTION _of the_ HEAD _of the_ FŒTUS _severed from the_
    BODY, _and which shall have remained in the_ UTERUS, 358.
   Speculum matricis _given up by Dr. Smellie: so would other
      instruments be, if justice was done them_, 367.
   _A curious method of_ CELSUS, 369.
   _Inventions of_ CAWLS _and_ FILLETS, 369.

 _Of that labor in which the_ HEAD _of the_ FŒTUS _remains hitched in
    the passage, the_ BODY _being intirely come out of the_ UTERUS, 372.
   _Quackery of Daventer_, 378.
   _Two examples of children, the one killed, the other supposed dead,
      and losing its head by errors in the manual function_, 379.

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