Eighteenth-century British midwifery

Part III Volume 9 Midwifery Treatises: 1737-1784 Henry Bracken, The Midwife's Companion, or, A Treatise on Midwifery (1737) Fielding Ould, A Treatise of Midwifry (1742) Brudenell Exton, A New and General System of Midwifery (1751) George Counsell, The Art of Midwifry, or, The Midwife's Sure Guide (1752) Benjamin Pugh, A Treatise on Midwifery, Chiefly with Regard to that Operation (1754) John Memis, The Midwife's Pocket-Companion, or A Practical Treatise of Midwifery (1765) David Spence, A System of Midwifery, Theoretical and Practical (1784) Volume 10 Midwifery Essays, Lectures, and Addresses: c.1770-1800 Thomas Denman, Essays on the Puerperal Fever, and on Puerperal Convulsions (1768) John Gibson, Some Useful Hints and Friendly Admonitions to Young Surgeons on the Practice of Midwifery (1772) Edward Foster, The Skeleton, or Syllabus, of a Course of Lectures, on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (1772) Robert Bland, 'Some Calculations on the Number of Accidents or Deaths which Happen in Consequence of Parturition' Philosophical Transactions (1781) John Aitken, Principles of Midwifery, or Puerperal Medicine ([1784]) John Aitken, A System of Obstetrical Tables, with Explanations (1786) John Aitken, An Address to the Chirurgo-Obstetrical Society (1786) John Sheldon, Proposals for a Course of Anatomical, Physiological, and Chirurgical Lectures ([1780?]) [William Hunter], Lectures on the Gravid Uterus, and Midwifery (1783) Thomas Pole, A Syllabus of a Course of Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (1797) [John Haighton], A Syllabus of the Lectures on Midwifery (1799) Volume 11 Difficult Births and Reproductive Abnormalities Giles Watts, Reflections on Slow and Painful Labours and Other Subjects in Midwifery (1755) William Goldson, An Extraordinary Case of Lacerated Vagina, at the Full Period of Gestation (1787) William Cockell, An Essay on the Retroversion of the Uterus (1785) Caesarian Birth, Embryulcia and the Division of the Symphysis Pubis William Osborn, An Essay on Laborious Parturition (1783) Alexander Hamilton, Outlines of the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (1784) Alexander Hamilton, Letters to Dr William Osborn, Teacher and Practitioner of Midwifery in London, on Certain Doctrines Contained in his Essays on the Practice of Midwifery, &c. (1792) Robert Bland, Observations on Human and Comparative Parturition (1794) William Simmons, Reflections on the Propriety of Performing the Caesarian Operation ([1798]) John Hull, A Defence of the Caesarian Operation, with Observations on Embryulcia, and the Section of the Symphysis Pubis, Addressed to Mr W Simmons ([1798]) Charles White, Richard Hall, George Tomlinson and John Thorpe, A Further Statement of the Case of Elizabeth Thompson, upon whom the Caesarean Operation was Performed in the Manchester Lying-in Hospital (1799) Volume 12 Midwifery Artifacts, Instruments, and Illustrations Edmund Chapman, An Essay on the Improvement of Midwifery Chiefly with Regard to the Operation (1733) Edmund Chapman, A Treatise on the Improvement of Midwifery, Chiefly with Regard to the Operation (1735) Philosophical Society of Edinburgh, Medical Essays and Observations (1737-8) William Giffard and Edward Hody, Cases in Midwifery (1734) Samuel Patterson, A Catalogue of the Entire and Inestimable Apparatus for Lectures in Midwifery ... by the Late Ingeneous Dr William Smellie, Deceased (1770) Hassil Hutchins, A Descriptive Catalogue of a Very Extensive and Capital Collection of Anatomical Preparations (1787) John Leake, The Description and Use of a New Pair of Forceps (1773) A Vindication of the Forceps Described and Recommended by Dr Leake (1774) Edward Foster and James Sims, The Principles and Practice of Midwifery (1781) William Dease, Observations in Midwifery, Particularly on the Different Methods of Assisting Women in Tedious and Difficult Labours (1783) John Savigny, A Collection of Engravings, Representing the Most Modern and Approved Instruments in the Practice of Surgery (1798) John Savigny, A Catalogue of Chirurgical Instruments (1800) Stephen Freedman, The Ladies' Friend and Family Physical Library (1787) William Nisbet, The Clinical Guide, or A Concise View of the Leading Facts, on the History, Nature, and Treatment of the Various Diseases that Form the Subject of Midwifery (1800) James Hamilton, A Collection of Engravings, Designed to Facilitate the Study of Midwifery, Explained and Illustrated (1796)