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man-midwife
ˈman-ˈmidwife Now rare. Pl. men-midwives. A man who assists women in childbirth; an accoucheur. Also fig.1625 B. Jonson Staple of N. Induct., There are a set of gamesters within, in trauell of a thing call'd a Play,..and they haue intreated me to be their Man-Midwife, the Prologue. 1638 Suckling Agl...
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Peter Chamberlen the elder
With an interest in obstetrics, he was unusual for the time for his role as a "man-midwife"; and came into conflict with the established College of Physicians
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Mary Toft
Ann Toft sent the flesh to John Howard, a Guildford-based man-midwife of thirty years' experience. He thought Howard's behaviour just as suspicious, as the man-midwife would not let him help deliver the rabbits—although Ahlers was not a man-midwife and
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Sarah Stone (midwife)
Instead, she developed a certain maneuver that was successful enough for her, despite the differing views of the growing man-midwife population. External links
Title page of A Complete Practice of Midwifery
Sarah Stone (Active 1701-1737)
Sarah Stone: A Complete Practice of Midwifery
No. 453: The Man-Midwife
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Samuel Wathen
a surgeon and John Wesley's personal physician, he was also one of the physicians of the City of London Lying-in Hospital on City Road where he was a man-midwife He was also listed on the Royal Kalendar of 1766 as man-midwife to the Queen, which must have been Charlotte, wife of George III, and makes it likely that
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Elizabeth Nihell
inquirers in a fair way of very safely forming their own judgment upon the question; which it is best to employ, in cases of pregnancy and lying-in, a man-midwife Inquirers in a Fair Way of Very Safely Forming Their Own Judgment upon the Question, Which It Is Best to Employ, in Cases of Pregnancy and Lying-in, a Man-midwife
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René Levasseur
Early life
Levasseur was a surgeon and man-midwife under the Ancien Régime. He was disinherited by one of his uncles for his political radicalism.
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Peter Chamberlen
Peter Chamberlen may refer to:
Peter Chamberlen the elder (c. 1560–1631), French-English surgeon and man-midwife
Peter Chamberlen the younger (1572–1626
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Thomas Radford
He joined the hospital in 1818 as a man-midwife; from 1834 he was house surgeon extraordinary; from 1841 until his death in 1881 he was the consulting
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Robert Bland
Robert Bland (1730–1816) was an English physician and man-midwife (obstetrician). He was physician to the London Dispensary. Family
His second son, William Bland, was a naval surgeon, and after killing a man in a duel was transported to Australia, where he became a politician
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Henry Jebb
Henry Jebb set up practice as a surgeon and man-midwife in 1777 in Dublin.
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Midwife
In previous centuries, they were called man-midwives in English.
William Smellie is credited with innovations on the shape of forceps. He advised male midwives to wear dresses to reduce controversy over having a man present at birth.
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Charles White
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Charles White (Dr Rock) (born 1942), Irish-born BBC Radio and television presenter
Charles White (physician) (1728–1813), English surgeon and man-midwife
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John Burton (antiquary)
By then he had established his practice as physician and man-midwife in York, and he was a prime mover in establishing in 1740 the York County Hospital to his attempt to recover his damaged professional status but were principally due to his wish to forestall a book being written by the eminent London man-midwife
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Catharina Cramer
Catharina Geertruida Schrader (1656–1746), also known as the Frisian Midwife (from the Dutch province Friesland), was a successful Dutch midwife in the If needed, she would most likely have asked a man to use an instrument: she recorded six cases of herself using a crotchet, and ten asking a man-midwife
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