Man-midwife
Full definition of man-midwife
Noun
- An accoucheur.
- 1775, Laurence Sterne, The Koran, Chapter XXXVII: The Man-Midwife, The Works of Laurence Sterne, midwives%22&hl=en&ei=ESSDTpuxB83xmAXPxdA7&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEcQ6AEwBTgK#v=onepage&q=%22man-midwife|midwives%22&f=false page 75,She was daughter to a man-midwife; — and all that has been urged upon the former caſe, is equally referable to this one also.
- 1835 May 30, Evidence of Mr, Guthrie before the Parliamentary Medical Committee, The Lancet for 1834-35, Volume 2, midwives%22&hl=en&ei=tyaDToLbK6HNmAWIz_wa&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CE0Q6AEwBjgU#v=onepage&q=%22man-midwife|midwives%22&f=false page 287,It is the same with the man-midwife ; he has no time to devote to surgery ; if he has time, he has no means of improving his knowledge in it.
- 2010, Mary Lindemann, Medicine and Society in Early Modern Europe, midwives%22&hl=en&ei=tyaDToLbK6HNmAWIz_wa&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CFwQ6AEwCTgU#v=onepage&q=%22man-midwife|midwives%22&f=false page 268,Thus, the answer to the old question of whether man-midwives or midwives were the better birth attendants is not simple. Some midwives were indeed dirty, ignorant, and dangerous; some man-midwives saved lives with their forceps; and some births were doomed to disaster.
