But through his patience, endurance and practical commitment to innovation, the latter had proved the midwife to their birth.
For the first time in history an obstetrical maneuver is named after a midwife.
It involved randomization of the general practices to which the midwives were attached (67).
But not all social categories of midwives were considered equally trainable.
It is often within the semantics of 'safety' that midwives and obstetricians hold widely disparate views.
The editors state that the asylum movement has rightly been seen as the midwife to the new psychiatric profession in the nineteenth century.
Alytes obstetricians, the midwife toad, has for some time qualified as a troublemaker.
Some trained midwives had their special licences wrongly replaced by ordinary ones and some midwives were charged for licences they never received.
