Eighteenth-Century British Midwifery, Part I

Pam Lieske

Part I Volume 1 Popular Culture and Medicine Nicholas Culpeper, A Directory for Midwives (1651); Robert Barret, A Companion for Midwives, Child-Bearing Women, and Nurses (1699); A M, A Rich Closet of Physical Secrets (1652); Some Observations made upon the Maldiva Nut (1694); J P, The Fruitful Wonder (1674); 'To Ladies of the Female Sex and All Others'; Announcement of the Birth of Monsters; Advertisement selling Medicine to Cure Barrenness; Advertisement by Stephen Draper; The Cruel Midwife (1693); The Man-Midwife Unmasqu'd (1734) Midwifery and the Law At the Council-Chamber in White-Hall (1688); The Trial of a Cause between Richard Maddox, Gent Plaintiff, and Dr M-y, Defendant, Physician, and Man-Midwife (1754) The Maternal Imagination: The Daniel Turner-James Blondel Controversy Daniel Turner, 'Of Spots and Marks ... Imprest upon the Skin of the Foetus, by the Force of the Mother's Fancy', De Morbis Cutaneis(1726); [James Augustus Blondel], The Strength of Imagination in Pregnant Women Examin'd (1727); Daniel Turner, 'A Defence of the XIIth Chapter', A Discourse Concerning Gleets (1729); James Augustus Blondel, The Power of the Mother's Imagination over the Foetus Examin'd (1729); Daniel Turner, The Force of the Mother's Imagination upon her Foetus in Utero, Still Farther Considered (1730); John Henry Mauclerc, The Power of Imagination in Pregnant Women Discussed (1740) Volume 2 The Mary Toft Affair A Philosophical Enquiry into the Wonderful Coney-Warren (1726); The Wonder of Wonders (1726); Nathaniel St Andre, A Short Narrative of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbets (1727); Thomas Brathwaite, Remarks on A Short Narrative of an Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbets (1726); Sir Richard Manningham, An Exact Diary of What was Observ'd during a Close Attendance upon Mary Toft (1726); James Douglas, An Advertisement Occasion'd by Some Passages in Sir R Manningham's Diary Lately Publish'd (1727); The Several Depositions of Edward Costen, Richard Stedman, John Sweetapple, Mary Peytoe, Elizabeth Mason, and Mary Costen; Cyriacus Ahlers, Some Observations concerning the Woman of Godlyman in Surrey (1726); A Shorter and Truer Advertisement (1727); Lemuel Gulliver [pseud], The Anatomist Dissected: or The Man-Midwife Finely Brought to Bed Being an Examination of the Conduct of Mr St Andre (1727); A Letter from a Male Physician in the Country, to the Author of the Female Physician in London (1726); St A-D-E's Miscarriage: or, A Full and True Account of the Rabbet-Woman (1727); Much Ado about Nothing: or, A Plain Refutation of all that has been Written or Said concerning the Rabbit-Woman of Godalming (1727); [Alexander Pope with William Pulteney], The Discovery: Or, The Squire turn'd Ferret (1726); William Hogarth, Cunicularii, or The Wise Men of Godliman in Consultation Volume 3 Continental Midwives in Translation Francois Mauriceau, The Diseases of Women with Child, and in Child-Bed, 2nd edn (1683); Hendrik van Deventer, The Art of Midwifery Improv'd (1716); Pierre Dionis, A General Treatise of Midwifery (1719) Volume 4 Midwifery Texts for Women Sarah Stone, A Complete Practice of Midwifery (1737); William Clark, The Province of Midwives in the Practice of their Art (1751); John Grigg, Advice to the Female Sex in General (1789)