Surgery in 1800

The surgeoness: the female practitioner of surgery 1400-1800.

IN the year 1729, Mary Webb, a girl of fifteen, was apprenticed by the overseers of the Parish of Fulham in the county of Middlesex to Mrs Anne Saint of St Leonard's Shoreditch, Surgeoness. The indenture (Figure 1) bound the girl for seven years, during which time the mistress was to teach her the art.' But what was a "surgeoness", and what art did she teach? The term suggests a female surgeon,...

Op-brai150137 1776..1800

The basal ganglia control body movements, value processing and decision-making. Many studies have shown that the inputs and outputs of each basal ganglia structure are topographically organized, which suggests that the basal ganglia consist of separate circuits that serve distinct functions. A notable example is the circuits that originate from the rostral (head) and caudal (tail) regions of th...

Crime in England 1550-1800

to the significance there of the workhouses. She discusses the economic, social, and political factors which shaped the system of poor law, and, in opposition to received opinion, she demonstrates that in spite of a theoretically centralized administration of the Poor Law of 1834, in practice areas like Norfolk retained considerable autonomy. This, together with other new interpretations, make ...

Chronologie Chemie 1800–1970

Midwives in early modern Europe ( 1400 - 1800 )

This article examines the status of midwives in the early modern period (1400-1800). More particularly, it examines midwives’ practice, education, skills and competence, social background, public life and image as well as the way they were regarded by their clients, in an era prior to their decline and the increase in medical intervention during childbirth. Due to bulk of information this study...