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Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie - Eighteenth-Century Midwives and their Patients (Hardcover)
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Mrs Stone & Dr Smellie - Eighteenth-Century Midwives and their Patients (Hardcover)
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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 way by analysing the work of two well-known midwives.
Sarah Stone's A Complete Practice of Midwifery was published in
London in 1737. Mrs Stone had been a midwife in Bridgwater, Taunton
and Bristol before moving to London in the late 1730s. Her book
collects 43 case notes mainly from her Somerset practice. It is
probably unique in providing a female midwife's perspective on
childbirth in provincial England in the eighteenth century.
Although often mentioned by medical historians, literary scholars
have given it most attention by reading it as a feminist text. But
A Complete Practice reproduced in full within this book, is a
detailed, albeit selective, account of the problems faced by
midwifes, what they could do for their women, and how likely they
were to succeed. William Smellie (1697-1763) occupies a pivotal
position in the history of midwifery, not only in Britain, but also
in the wider international community. He published a textbook in
1751 and two collections of case notes in 1754 and 1764. an
analysis of the 278 London cases. Woods and Galley offer a 'thick
description' of Smellie's practice, the problems he faced, the
people he dealt with, how he combined domiciliary clinical practice
with advanced instruction, and the way in which he presented his
work to a wider community for their enlightenment. Compulsory
reading for those working on the history of medicine and midwifery,
demography and social history, Mrs Stone and Dr Smellie is an
engaging final study by the late internationally-renowned scholar
Professor Robert Woods, FBA.
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