Eighteenth-Century British Midwifery Part I vol 3

Gives readers an understanding of midwives, midwifery students, and women in labour. This twelve-volume collection comprises pamphlets, treatises, lectures for midwifery students, texts on the establishment of lying-in hospitals, and catalogues of obstetrical apparatuses collected by male-midwives. Volume 3 Continental Midwives in Translation: Introduction vii Works Cited, François Mauriceau, The Diseases of Women with Child, and in Child-Bed, 2nd edn (1683) 1 Hendrik van Deventer, The Art of Midwifery Improv’d (1716) Pierre Dionis, A General Treatise of Midwifery (1719) Editorial Notes