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Page 7 - And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
Page 40 - ... those depending on external causes, and yet are only to be cured by ministering to the mind diseased. A patient should never be afraid of thus making his physician his friend and adviser; he should always bear in mind that a medical man is under the strongest obligations of secrecy. Even the female sex should never allow feelings of shame or delicacy to prevent their disclosing the seat, symptoms, and causes of complaints peculiar to them.
Page 29 - MD, Professor of Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children in the University of Pennsylvania, &c.
Page 7 - Students of his Class. By Charles D. Meigs, MD, Professor of Midwifery and the Diseases of Women and Children in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, etc., etc.
Page 25 - She possessed a vigorous constitution, and frequently travelled through the woods on snow shoes, from one part of the town to another, both by night and day, to relieve the distressed. She lived to the advanced age of 87 years, officiated as midwife at more than 2,000 births, and never lost a patient.
Page 8 - ... see the cases of these disorders going the whole round of the profession in any village, town, or city, and falling, at last, into the hands of the quack; either ending in some surprising cure, or leading the victim, by gradual lapses of health and strength, down to the grave, the last refuge of the incurable, or rather the...
Page 25 - ... fearful amid the foes that so thickly beset the first years of life. The success of Mrs. Eliot in the rearing and treatment of her own children, caused her experience to be coveted by others. In' her cheerful gift of advice and aid, she perceived a field of usefulness opening around her, especially among the poor to whom with a large charity she dispensed safe and salutary medicines. But her philanthrophy was not to be thus limited to the children of penury.
Page 9 - I am proud to say that in this country generally, certainly in many parts of it, there are women who prefer to suffer the extremity of danger and pain rather than waive those scruples of delicacy which prevent their maladies from being fully explored.
Page 14 - Accouchemens at Paris, and author of the admirable Treatise on the Diseases of Women, &c. Her writings prove her to have been a most learned physician, and as she enjoyed a very large practice, her science and her great clinical experience, as well as her own personal knowledge, are more to be relied on than that of all the male physicians together. She says, "The blood of the menses is just like that which is taken away from a vein.
Page 30 - To you, gentlemen, an announcement of this character may appear like romance, but I have myself witnessed in this city scenes of blood sufficient to satisfy my mind that this is not an exaggerated picture ; and I will take the liberty of citing one case, among several others now fresh in my memory, to show you that I do not speak without cause when I protest against the unholy acts of men, who were intended neither by Heaven nor Nature to assume the sacred duties of the lying-in-chamber.