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Excerpt from A Manual of Midwifery, or Compendium of Gynecology and Paidonosology: Comprising a New Nomenclature of Obstetric Medicine, With a Concise Account of the Symptoms and Treatment of the Most Important Diseases of Women and Children, and the Management of the Various Forms of Parturition
In addition to these terms, I was the first to propose the word obstetrician, in place of man-midwife and accoucheur, which was soon sanctioned by my distinguished friend Dr. Blundell, and is now generally adopted.
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