British maternal mortality in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to Geoffrey Chamberlain.
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Medicine in ancient Egypt was much more advanced than the rest of the Biblical world, especially in trauma surgery. Care at the time of childbirth was however virtually non-existent. There were no trained obstetricians or midwives but a galaxy of gods were at hand. This article traces what we can piece together about pregnancy of childbirth from the evidence we have in tombs and papyri of Egypt.
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