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News from the NLM Booth | MLA 2013 Conference Blog — Tue, 07 May 2013 02:55:34 +0000

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[...] the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation via the Open Knowledge Common to digitize 30,000 medical rare books. MHL principal contributors include Columbia, Harvard, Yale, the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, the National Library of [...]

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The Daily Dose Presents: The Medical Heritage Library | bschillace — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 19:11:37 +0000

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Hanna Clutterbuck — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:29:34 +0000

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Jody T. Rivers — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:29:24 +0000

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Midwives duties | Greatstatescho — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 08:45:15 +0000

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Comment on Digital Highlight: Renaissance Midwifery by Michelle DiMeo

Michelle DiMeo — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:55:47 +0000

Thanks for the ping back and for elaborating on the social implications of medicine for Tudor women. You’re right — these surgical instruments are fore-runners to 17th Century forceps, but they were not meant to assist live births. If you are fascinated by the images, make sure you also check out the birthing scene in the 1580 edition http://archive.org/stream/deconceptuetgene00rffj#page/n23/mode/2up and the illustration of the rather terrifying speculum http://archive.org/stream/deconceptuetgene00rffj#page/n71/mode/2up
You might also like Megan Guenther’s article on Rueff http://anatomyofgender.northwestern.edu/guenther01.html which discusses the use of these instruments in regards to gender and cultural taboos.