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midwifery

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midwifery

Assistance of women in childbirth. Traditionally, it was undertaken by experienced specialists; in modern medical training it is a nursing speciality for practitioners called midwives. (See also obstetrics.)

The English physician William Harvey's 1653 work on generation contained an influential chapter on labour. Dr Peter Chamberlen II (1560–1631) made an important contribution to midwifery, particularly with his development of the first midwifery forceps.



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Midwifery should be taught in the same course with fencing and boxing, riding and rowing.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
He was very anxious to pass, first to save himself time and expense, for money had been slipping through his fingers during the last four months with incredible speed; and then because this examination marked the end of the drudgery: after that the student had to do with medicine, midwifery, and surgery, the interest of which was more vivid than the anatomy and physiology with which he had been hitherto concerned.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
There's no midwifery there, whichever place she's gone to; so I suppose she's out of employment, anyway.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context
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