Eighteenth-Century British Midwifery, Part II

Pam Lieske

Part II Volume 5 The State of Midwifery Considered, William Smellie and his Critics John Douglas, A Short Account of the State of Midwifery in London, Westminster, &c.: Wherein an Effectual Method is Proposed, to Enable the Midwomen to Perform their Office in All Cases with as Much Ease, Speed, and Safety, as the Most Dexterous Midmen (1736); Edmund Chapman, A Reply to Mr Douglass's 'Short Account of the State of Midwifery in London and Westminster' Wherein his Trifling and Malicious Cavils are Answer'd (1737); John Astruc, 'A Short History of the Art of Midwifry' from Elements of Midwifery (1766); A Tolver, 'The Present State of Midwifery in Paris' from The present state of midwifery in Paris (1770); William Smellie and His Critics William Smellie, A Course of Lectures upon Midwifery (1742); William Smellie, Midwifery Certificate (1750); William Smellie, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (1752); John Burton, A Letter to William Smellie, MD Containing Critical and Practical Remarks upon his Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (1753); William Douglas, A Letter to Dr Smelle [sic] (1748); Anon., An Answer to a Late Pamphlet Intituled, 'A letter to Dr Smellie, Shewing the Impropriety of his New Invented Wooden Forceps, &c.' (c.1748); William Douglas., A Second Letter to Dr Smelle [sic] (c.1748); John Burton, A Letter to William Smellie (1753) Volume 6 Elizabeth Nihell Elizabeth Nihell, A treatise on the Art of Midwifery (1760); [Tobias Smollett], Review of Elizabeth Nihell's A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery, in Critical Review (1760) Volume 7 Lying-in Hospitals 'The Institution and Oeconomy of the Charitable Infirmary' (1744); An Account of the Rise and Progress of the Lying-in Hospital for Married Women (1751); An Account of the Westminter New Lying-in Hosptial ([c.1767]); A Short Account of the Institution, Plan, and Present State of the New General Lying-in Hospital ([1787]) Male/Female Midwifery Debates A Defence of Dr Pocus and Dr Malus, against 'The Petition of the Unborn Babes' ([1751]); A Vindication of Man-Midwifery, Being the Answer of Dr. Pocus, Dr Maulus, and Dr Barebones...to 'The Petition of the Unborn Babes' (1752); [Philip Thicknesse], A letter to a young lady (1764); [John Roabard], A letter to the author of 'A letter to a Young Lady' (1764); [Philip Thicknesse], Man-Midwifery Analysed (1764); The Danger and Immodesty of The Present too general Custom of Unnecessarily Employing Men-Midwives, 2nd edn. (1772); Martha Mears, The Pupil of Nature; or Candid Advice to the Fair Sex (1797); Margaret Stephen, Domestic Midwife; or the Best Means of Preventing Danger in Childbirth, Considered (1795); John Blunt, [pseud. Samuel William Fores], Man-Midwifery Dissected, or, The Obstetric Family-Instructor (1793) Volume 8 Midwifery Lectures, Essays, and Addresses: 1750-1769 Thomas Young, A Course of Lectures upon Midwifery (1750); N Torriano, Compendium Obstetricii, or, A Small Tract on the Formation of the Foetus, and the Practice of Midwifery (1753); Christopher Kelly, A Course of Lectures on Midwifery (1757); [Robert Wallace Johnson], Some Friendly Cautions to the Heads of Families (1767); John Harvie, Practical Directions, Shewing a Method of Preserving the Perinaeum in Birth (1767); John Leake, A Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (1767); Notes Taken by an Anonymous Student of Lectures on Midwifery by Dr Colin Mackenzie at the General Lying-In Hospital (1770)