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    Gynaecological Visiting Society. A lifelong champion of the reputation of the founder of professional midwifery in the British isles, William Smellie...
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    medicine in 1737, studying under William Cullen. Arriving in London, Hunter became resident pupil to William Smellie (1741–44) and he was trained in anatomy...
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  • remarkable 21 editions. His biography of the Scottish obstetrician William Smellie was published in 1952. He retired in 1946 and died in Edinburgh in...
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    antibiotic therapy Sir Thomas Lewis, cardiologist at the hospital Jean Smellie, consultant paediatrician (1970–1993) Elizabeth Joan Stokes, medical registrar...
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    difficult cases. This improvement was published in 1751 in England by William Smellie in the book A Treatise on the theory and practice of midwifery. After...
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  • were similar to those used by the 18th-century Scottish obstetrician William Smellie. Wrigley asked the instrument-maker Allen & Hanburys to adapt them...
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    head may be controlled by a special two-handed grip called the Mauriceau–Smellie–Veit maneuver or the elective application of forceps. This will be of value...
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    psychiatrist and medical psychologist William Cumin (died 1854), Regius Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow David Douglas...
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    In previous centuries, they were called man-midwives in English. William Smellie is credited with innovations on the shape of forceps. This invention...
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    235–236 Coley, pp. 368–369 Smellie, p. 30 (opiates) Smellie, p. 47 (menstruation) Smellie, p. 75 (muscle paralysis) Smellie, pp. 91–92 (spasm and hysteria)...
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