DoHistoryArchivesite maptech helpabout sitesearch

A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery, Setting Forth Various Abuses Therein, Especially as to the Practice with Instruments
Nihell, Elizabeth
1760
Published by Printed for A. Morley, London
Location of original: Countway Rare Books, Harvard University
 
View thumbnails of the 58 pages in this document
 
View Image
View Image
 
<

Page 33

>

  on  M I D W I F E R Y
33

more particularly distinguish her sex; that she can discern the container from the contents, what belongs to the mother from what belongs to the child, as well as what is foreign to both. In short, she ought to be skilled enough to give full satisfaction to all questions that the most able anatomist could put to her, in respect to that part purely necessary to the art of midwifery, and to its operations with mastery and safety.

   NOW the midwife, especially one instructed in hospitals, ought to be well acquainted with all that is essential and necessary to that effect; and she cannot but be so, unless she is of herself incapable, or that those who are charged with the instruction of pupils, wrong the confidence of the public.

   I MYSELF know more than one midwife, so well adeucated as to be able to give demonstrations on this subject, to analize things by their names, either upon drawings of them, upon sleletons, or upon the originals themselves. It is true, that these poor midwives do not under-

 

 
D
stand
<   >

 Title page   Dedication page i   Dedication page ii   Dedication page iii   Dedication page iv 
 Preface page i   Preface page ii   Preface page iii   Preface page iv   Preface page v 
 Preface page vi   Preface page vii   Preface page viii   Preface page ix   Preface page x 
 Preface page xi   Preface page xii   Preface page xiii   Preface page xiv   Preface page xv 
 Preface page xvi   Contents page i   Contents page ii   Contents page iii   Contents page iv 
 Contents page v   Contents page vi   Page 31   Page 32   Page 33 
 Page 34   Page 35   Page 36   Page 37   Page 38 
 Page 39   Page 52   Page 53   Page 54   Page 55 
 Page 56   Page 57   Page 58   Page 59   Page 60 
 Page 61   Page 62   Page 63   Page 64   Page 65 
 Page 66   Page 67   Page 68   Page 69   Page 70 
 Page 71   Page 72   Page 73 




home your interests who was Martha? Martha's diary book film doing history archive on your own