accoucheur

• “The professional accoucheur is unknown among Mahometans, who only engage midwives, these however being incredibly ignorant.”

  Memoirs of an Arabian Princess

• “Ergot also had a history of medical use—as a labor-inducing drug that, according to one nineteenth-century physician, “expedites lingering parturition and saves to the accoucheur a considerable portion of time.””

  Simon & Schuster: MANUFACTURING DEPRESSION

• “Of course superstition is at the bottom of this barbarity; the same which a generation ago made the silly accoucheur refuse to give ether because of the divine (?) saying “In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children.””

  The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

• “The physician and accoucheur assure us that Renee is now quite out of danger; and as she is proving an admirable nurse — Nature has endowed her so generously! — my father and I are able to give free rein to our joy.”

  Letters of Two Brides

• “In the month of November 1820 I found means to persuade the best accoucheur in Paris to play the part of”

  Honorine

• “But we are certain of this, — that no one will raise a similar claim as against the herdsman, who is allowed on all hands to be the sole and only feeder and physician of his herd; he is also their match-maker and accoucheur; no one else knows that department of science.”

  The Statesman

• “I am a country surgeon, and of course an accoucheur.”

  Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery

• “Whereafter, running down to the sea, I pulled up my sleeves, and, on returning, embarked upon my role, of accoucheur.”

  Through Russia

• “And midwifery, decency seems to allot to them, though I am afraid the word midwife, in our dictionaries, will soon give place to accoucheur, and one proof of the former delicacy of the sex be effaced from the language.”

  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

• “This old woman had conceived so violent a hatred against the poor Princess, that I do believe she prevailed on Clement, the accoucheur, to treat her ill in her confinement; and what confirms me in this is that she almost killed her by visiting her at that time in perfumed gloves.”

  The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency

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