Volume 5: The State of Midwifery Considered, William Smellie and his CriticsJohn Douglas, A Short Account of the State of Midwifery in London, Westminster, &c.: Wherein an Effectual Method is Proposed, to Enable the Midwomen to Perform their Office in All Cases with as Much Ease, Speed, and Safety, as the Most Dexterous Midmen (1736); Edmund Chapman, A Reply to Mr Douglass's 'Short Account of the State of Midwifery in London and Westminster' Wherein his Trifling and Malicious Cavils are Answer'd (1737); John Astruc, 'A Short History of the Art of Midwifry' from Elements of Midwifery (1766); A Tolver, 'The Present State of Midwifery in Paris' from The present state of midwifery in Paris (1770); William Smellie, A Course of Lectures upon Midwifery, wherein the Theory and Practice of that Art are Explain'd in the Clearest Manner (1742); William Smellie, These are to Certify that [blank] hath Carefully Attended my Lectures on Midwifery, by which he has had the Opportunity of being Fully Instructed in all the Different Operations and Branches in that Art (1750); William Smellie, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (1752); John Burton, A Letter to William Smellie, MD Containing Critical and Practical Remarks upon his Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (1753); William Douglas, A Letter to Dr Smelle [sic] Shewing the Impropriety of his New-invented Wooden Forceps: as Also, the Absurdity of his Method of Teaching and Practising Midwifry (1748); Anon., An Answer to a Late Pamphlet Intituled, 'A letter to Dr Smellie, Shewing the Impropriety of his New Invented Wooden Forceps, &c.' (?1748); Anon., A Second Letter to Dr Smelle [sic] and an Answer to his Pupil, Confirming the Impropriety of his Wooden Forceps (?1748)Volume 6: Elizabeth NihellElizabeth Nihell, A treatise on the art of midwifery, setting forth various abuses therein, especially as to the practice with instruments : the whole serving to put all rational inquirers in a fair way of very safely forming their own judgment upon the question, which it is best to employ, in cases of pregnancy and lying-in, a man-midwife, or, a midwife (1760); An answer to the author of the Critical review, for March, 1760. Upon the article of Mrs. Nihell's Treatise on the art of midwifery. (1760)Volume 7: Lying-in Hospitals, Male/Female Midwifery DebatesRichard Manningham, The Institution and Oeconomy of the Charitable Infirmary for the Relief of Poor Women Labouring Child, and during their Lying-in (1739); Richard Manningham, An Abstract of Midwifery, for the Use of the Lying-in Infirmary (1744); An Account of the Rise and Progress of the Lying-in Hospital for Married Women, Situated in Brownlow-Street, Long-Acre, From its Institution in November 1749, to July 25, 1751 (1751); An Account of the Westminter New Lying-in Hosptial, begun and finished under the patronage of the Right Honorable Earl Percy, President (1767?); An Act for the better regulation of lying-in hospitals, and other places, appropriated for the charitable reception of pregnant women; and also to provide for the settlement of bastard children, born in such hospitals and places. Public General Acts. 1772-1773. 13 Geo.111.c.82 (1773); A Short Account of the Institution, Plan, and Present State of the New General Lying-in Hospital, in Store Street, Tottenham Court Road (1787); John Maubray, Midwifery Brought to Perfection, by Manual Operation; Illustrated in a Lecture (1725), A Vindication of man-midwifery, being the answer of Dr. Pocus, Dr. Maulus, and Dr. Barebones and others, their brethren, who, like legion, are many to the Petition of the unborn babes, etc. In a letter to the President and Censors, and the elect of the College of Physicians, London. (1752); Dr Peter McGripes, pseudonym, An answer to that heterogeneous letter, addressed to Dr. Wessels, and subjoined to The petition of the unborn babes. Dedicated to the young physicians, by Dr. McGripes, late student under Dr. Wessels. (1759); Philip Thicknesse, A letter to a young lady (1764); John Roabard, A letter to the author of A letter to a young lady (1764); Philip Thicknesse, Man-midwifery analyzed: and the tendency of that practice detected and exposed (1764); The Danger and Immodesty of The Present too general Custom of Unnecessarily Employing Men-Midwives. Proved Incontestibly in the Letters which Lately appeared under the Signature of A Man-Midwife. With an introduction, a treatise on the milk, and an appendix. With corrections by the author (1772); Martha Mears, The Pupil of Nature; or Candid Advice to the Fair Sex, on the Subjects of Pregnancy; Childbirth; the Diseases Incident to Both; the Fatal Effects of Ignorance and Quackery; and the Most Approved Means of Promoting the Heath, Strength, and Beauty of their Offspring (1797); Margaret Stephen, Domestic Midwife; or the Best Means of Preventing Danger in Childbirth, Considered (1795); Samuel William Fores, John Blunt, pseud. Man-midwifery dissected, or, The obstetric family-instructor for the use of married couples and single adults of both sexes : containing a display of the management of every class of labours by men and boy-midwives, also of their cunning, indecent, and cruel practices, instructions to husbands how to counteract them. (1793); A man-mid-wife, or a newly discovered animal, not known in Buffon's time... A full length frontal figure divided in half, one half representing a man and the other a woman. Coloured etching by I. Cruikshank, (1793)Volume 8: Midwifery Lectures, Essays, and Addresses: 1750-1769Thomas Young, A Course of Lectures upon Midwifery (1750); Thomas Young, Notes on [his] Lectures on Midwifery (?1777); N Torriano, Compendium Obstetricii, or, A Small Tract on the Formation of the Foetus, and the Practice of Midwifery (1753); Christopher Kelly, A Course of Lectures on Midwifery (1757); Robert Gooch, Lectures on Midwifery (1760); Thomas Cooper, Proposals for Teaching the Art of Midwifery, with a Syllabus of Lectures (?1766); Robert Wallace Johnson, Some Friendly Cautions to the Heads of Families: Containing Ample Directions to Nurses who Attend the Sick, and Women in Child-bed, &c. (1767); John Harvie, Practical Directions, Shewing a Method of Preserving the Perinaeum in Birth, and Delivering the Placenta Without Violence (1767); McKenzie of London, Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery (1769)
