Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie: Eighteenth-Century Midwives and Their Patients by Chris Galley, Robert Woods

Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie: Eighteenth-Century Midwives and Their Patients

Chris Galley, Robert Woods

560 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction health history
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How did midwives deliver women in the past? What was their understanding of anatomy and physiology? How did they cope with unnatural presentations, haemorrhage, miscarriage and stillbirths, constipation? Were lives being prolonged and risks dimini...

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