Eighteenth-Century British Midwifery, Part III

Pam Lieske

Part III Volume 9 Midwifery Treatises: 1737-1784 Henry Bracken, The Midwife's Companion, or, A Treatise on Midwifery (1737); Fielding Ould, A Treatise of Midwifry (1742); Brudenell Exton, A New and General System of Midwifery (1751); George Counsell, The Art of Midwifry, or, The Midwife's Sure Guide (1752); Benjamin Pugh, A Treatise on Midwifery, Chiefly with Regard to that Operation (1754); John Memis, The Midwife's Pocket-Companion, or A Practical Treatise of Midwifery (1765); David Spence, A System of Midwifery, Theoretical and Practical (1784) Volume 10 Midwifery Essays, Lectures, and Addresses: c.1770-1800 Thomas Denman, Essays on the Puerperal Fever, and on Puerperal Convulsions (1768); John Gibson, Some Useful Hints and Friendly Admonitions to Young Surgeons on the Practice of Midwifery (1772); Edward Foster, The Skeleton, or Syllabus, of a Course of Lectures, on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (1772); Robert Bland, 'Some Calculations on the Number of Accidents or Deaths which Happen in Consequence of Parturition' Philosophical Transactions (1781); John Aitken, Principles of Midwifery, or Puerperal Medicine ([1784]); John Aitken, A System of Obstetrical Tables, with Explanations (1786); John Aitken, An Address to the Chirurgo-Obstetrical Society (1786); John Sheldon, Proposals for a Course of Anatomical, Physiological, and Chirurgical Lectures ([1780?]); [William Hunter], Lectures on the Gravid Uterus, and Midwifery (1783); Thomas Pole, A Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (1797); [John Haighton], A Syllabus of the Lectures on Midwifery (1799) Volume 11 Difficult Births and Reproductive Abnormalities Giles Watts, Reflections on Slow and Painful Labours and Other Subjects in Midwifery (1755); William Goldson, An Extraordinary Case of Lacerated Vagina, at the Full Period of Gestation (1787); William Cockell, An Essay on the Retroversion of the Uterus (1785) Caesarian Birth, Embryulcia and the Division of the Symphysis Pubis William Osborn, An Essay on Laborious Parturition (1783); Alexander Hamilton, Outlines of the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (1784); Alexander Hamilton, Letters to Dr William Osborn, Teacher and Practitioner of Midwifery in London, on Certain Doctrines Contained in his Essays on the Practice of Midwifery, &c. (1792); Robert Bland, Observations on Human and Comparative Parturition (1794); William Simmons, Reflections on the Propriety of Performing the Caesarian Operation ([1798]); John Hull, A Defence of the Caesarian Operation, with Observations on Embryulcia, and the Section of the Symphysis Pubis, Addressed to Mr W Simmons ([1798]); Charles White, Richard Hall, George Tomlinson and John Thorpe, A Further Statement of the Case of Elizabeth Thompson, upon whom the Caesarean Operation was Performed in the Manchester Lying-in Hospital (1799) Volume 12 Midwifery Artifacts, Instruments, and Illustrations Edmund Chapman, An Essay on the Improvement of Midwifery; Chiefly with Regard to the Operation (1733); Edmund Chapman, A Treatise on the Improvement of Midwifery, Chiefly with Regard to the Operation (1735); Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, Medical Essays and Observations (1737-8); William Giffard and Edward Hody, Cases in Midwifery (1734); Samuel Patterson, A Catalogue of the Entire and Inestimable Apparatus for Lectures in Midwifery ... by the Late Ingeneous Dr William Smellie, Deceased (1770); Hassil Hutchins, A Descriptive Catalogue of a Very Extensive and Capital Collection of Anatomical Preparations (1787); John Leake, The Description and Use of a New Pair of Forceps (1773); A Vindication of the Forceps Described and Recommended by Dr Leake (1774); Edward Foster and James Sims, The Principles and Practice of Midwifery (1781); William Dease, Observations in Midwifery, Particularly on the Different Methods of Assisting Women in Tedious and Difficult Labours (1783); John Savigny, A Collection of Engravings, Representing the Most Modern and Approved Instruments in the Practice of Surgery (1798); John Savigny, A Catalogue of Chirurgical Instruments (1800); Stephen Freedman, The Ladies' Friend; and Family Physical Library (1787); William Nisbet, The Clinical Guide, or A Concise View of the Leading Facts, on the History, Nature, and Treatment of the Various Diseases that Form the Subject of Midwifery (1800); James Hamilton, A Collection of Engravings, Designed to Facilitate the Study of Midwifery, Explained and Illustrated (1796)