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• General practitioners and, increasingly after 1950, obstetricians attended most parturient women.
• Even more than the treatment of pregnant women, the field of obstetrics was perceived as an exclusively female medical trade, practiced by women trained generally in oral traditions of midwifery. 90 The midwife was responsible for preparing the parturient woman and alleviating the pain and discomfort of the birthing process. A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
• Only in cases of difficult deliveries, which most often resulted in the death of the mother, child, or both, was the colonial midwife bound by any sort of legislation; in such a case it obliged her to seek a surgeon's aid for the suffering parturient. Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico
• Civilisation made affluent women sick, while poverty and sin blighted the parturient poor.
• Cum sociis natoque penatibus et magnis dis parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus. Archive 2007-07-01
• The notion of improving the condition of the poor had not yet dawned on the mind of the governing class; to make the artizan and the operative self-supporting and self-respectful was a movement not merely unformulated, but a conception beyond the parturient faculty of a member of the Jacquerie. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
• Be about to parturient cloth orchid Ni, allegedly already make choice of in Arizona city a hospital is produced.
• Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus" (Mountains will heave in childbirth, and a silly little mouse will be born) seems an appropriate comment. Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?
• The notion of improving the condition of the poor had not yet dawned on the mind of the governing class; to make the artizan and the operative self-supporting and self-respectful was a movement not merely unformulated, but a conception beyond the parturient faculty of a member of the Jacquerie. Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
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