John Maubray

One of the early London teachers of midwives, Scotsman John Maubray died in 1732, eight years after his book The Female Physician was published. Maubray and a group of other London man-midwives followed the ideas of a surgeon from the Netherlands, Hendrik van Deventer (1651-1724). Deventer's wife was a midwife, and he promoted methods to adjust the presentation of the fetus or increase the size of the birth canal, rather than use forceps in difficult deliveries.

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Questions to ask these pages:

1. According to Maubray, who were the best birth assistants?

2. What knowledge, according to Maubray, led to the perfection of the art of birth assistance?

Questions to ask the book:

1. What practice associated with man-midwives did Maubray discourage?
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2. How did Maubray characterize ordinary midwives, as opposed to extraordinary ones?
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Title page

Page 169

T H E
FEMALE PHYSICIAN,
Containing all the
DISEASES incident to that SEX,
I N
Virgins, Wives, and Widows;
T O G E T H E R
With their Causes and Symptoms, their
Degrees of D A N G E R, and respective
Methods of P R E V E N T I O N and C U R E:

To which is added,
The Whole A R T of

New improv'd MIDWIFERY;

COMPREHENDING

The necessary Qualifications of a MIDWIFE, and particular Directions for laying Women, in all Cases of Difficult and Preternatural BIRTHS ; together with the Diet and Regimen of both the MOTHER and CHILD.

By J O H N M A U B R A Y, M. D.

----- ----- Opiferq; per Orbem

Dicor, ----- Ovid. Met.

L O N D O N:

Printed for J A M E S H O L L A N D, at the Bible and

Ball, in St. Paul's-Church-Yard. 1724.

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