Gregory S. 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 …, 1848.
Catalog Record: Gregory S. 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 …, 1848.
Title: 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 … / by Samuel Gregory.
AccessKey: adhq
Author: Gregory, Samuel, 1813-1872.
WLM Call Number: WO 450 G862 1848 RB
Accession NO.: RB8813
Publisher: Boston : George Gregory ; New York : Fowlers and Wells, 1848.
Edition: [6th ed.]
Physical Description: 50 p. ; 26 cm.
Provenance: Inscribed with “Goodspeeds 3-17-53, Contains review of Walter Channing’s Cases – Fulton-Stanton.”
Subject: Midwifery.
Subject: Ether, Sulphuric.
Subject: Analgesia, Obstetrical.
Subject: Obstetrics.
Subject: Anesthesia, Obstetrical.
Type of Trace: Short Title
Title: Female midwifery advocated.
General Notes: Full title: Female midwifery advocated, or, The employment of men to attend women in childbirth, and inother 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.”
General Notes: Previously published under the title: Man-midwifery exposed and corrected.
General Notes: Digitized by Northern Micrographics October 22, 2009.
General Notes: “Note to the sixth edition”on p. 50.
General Notes: Gregory provides a detailed account of the history of midwifery.
General Notes: Two columns to a page.
