Female midwifery advocated; or the employment of men to attend women in childbirth, and in other delicate circumstances

shown to be a modern innovation, unnecessary, unnatural, and injurious to the physical welfare of the community, and pernicious in its influence on professional and public morality; and the whole proved by numerous facts, and the testimony of the most eminent physicians, in Boston, New York, and other places; and the education and employment of midwives recommended; together with remarks on the use and abuse of ether, and Dr. Channing's "Cases of inhalation of ether in labor."

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Female midwifery advocated; or the employment of men to attend women in childbirth, and in other delicate circumstances

shown to be a modern innovation, unnecessary, unnatural, and injurious to the physical welfare of the community, and pernicious in its influence on professional and public morality; and the whole proved by numerous facts, and the testimony of the most eminent physicians, in Boston, New York, and other places; and the education and employment of midwives recommended; together with remarks on the use and abuse of ether, and Dr. Channing's "Cases of inhalation of ether in labor."

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Edition Notes

Two columns to the page.

Preface dated July, 1848.

Previously published under the title: Man-midwifery exposed and corrected.

"Note to the sixth edition": p. 50.

Published in
Boston, New York
Copyright Date
1848

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Pagination
2 p. ℓ., [7]-50 p.
Number of pages
50

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL61185295M
OCLC/WorldCat
82299467

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL44820396W

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