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midwifery: Quick Facts

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Midwives assisting a birth while astrologers consult sky charts; woodcut relief print from Jakob Rueff's De conceptu et generatione hominis (1554; The Expert Midwife).
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Mary Breckinridge
Mary Breckinridge
American nurse
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Hugh Chamberlen, the Elder
British midwife
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William Smellie
Scottish physician