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ice was regarded as none too dignified and a physician who devoted too much time to. it earned himself the name of a he-grand-mother.”GREEK medicine migrated to Rome where it continued to flourish. In the field of maternity it reached its high point in the work on midwifery, written by So-ranus of Ephesus in - the Second Century, A. D.Soranus cautioned care and patience in the treatment of the expectant molheri He counseled against, the use of herbs-and drugs to hasten childbirth and he warned against violent methods of expediting delivery.He also described the procedure known to modern medicine as po~ dalic version,” The great fear of the’ primitive woman had been that her child might be transversely in the pelvis so that it would not be born. The mid wives of both ancient Egypt and' ancient Greece under-“Another trick was to let-her lie on the ground upon an open field while a brave on horseback, shouting and waving his tomahawk rode at her. Straight for her he would ride, as if fco trample upon her, only turning asideat the last moment'* tstood how to reach into the uterus and turn the baby around so that it might be born properly.But after the destruction' of the Roman empire this knowlerge of podalic version was lost to the world until its rediscovery in the 16th'*' Century.Soranus himself practiced midwifery but during the Middle Ages both custom and law denied that right to' the physician. And so countless mothers and their children died because of the lethal combination of ignorance, filth and superstition, .Meanwhile, birth had. become more difficult for the mother than it was in primitive times. Because of the interbreeding, of racial strains, it was far more likely than ever before that a woman .with a
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El Paso Herald Post
El Paso, Texas, US
Mon, Sep 27, 1937
Page 10
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