Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie: Eighteenth-Century Midwives and Their Patients

by Robert Woods and Chris Galley

How did midwives deliver women in the past? What was their understanding of anatomy and physiology? How did they cope with unnatural presentations, haemorrhage, miscarriage and stillbirths, constipation? Were lives being prolonged and risks diminished? Midwifery case notes offer a considerable source of evidence, which, when used with care and imagination, help to tackle these questions. Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie demonstrates this in a fascinating...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1781381410
• ISBN13: 9781781381410
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 560 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.9" x 9.6"