Presentation on the history of obstetrics for the history of medicine course. Also, can find the document with more information to present the topic.

1. History of Obstetrics
Talitha. 2016.

2. The earliest birth attendants were women.

3. A squatting woman giving birth, assisted by
two goddesses (Hathor and Taweret), from
the Temple of Hathor at Dendera

4. Etymology
The history of obstetrics is inextricably linked with the history of midwifery.
Obstetrix was the Latin word for midwife: it is thought to derive from
obstare (to “stand before”).

6. The writings of Hippocrates in the
fifth century BC include a
description of normal birth.
Soranus of Ephesus described
antenatal care, labour, and the
management of malpresentation
by internal version and breech
extraction.

7. breech extraction

8. Al-Zahrawi
Was an Arab Muslim
physician and surgeon.
Described:
Ectopic pregnancy
Walcher position
Forceps in vaginal deliveries
& for extracting a dead fetus

9. Walcher position

10. Forceps for vaginal delivery

11. Forceps for extracting a dead foetus or abortion

12. In 1513 appeared an obstetric textbook
Der Schwangern Frauen und Hebamen
Rosengarten, known as “The
Rosengarten”, was translated into
Dutch in 1516 and reprinted many times
in Dutch and German over subsequent
decades.
“The Rosengarten” was the only
published work of Eucharius Rosslin.

13. De conceptu et generatione hominis, a
Latin text published in 1554 by Jacob Rueff
(1500–58), a surgeon and obstetrician in
Zurich.

15. During the 16th century the great French
military surgeon Ambroise Paré (1510–90)
founded a school for midwives in Paris.

16. It was not until the 17th century that
“accoucheurs” (male midwives) became
fashionable in France. The best known of
the French accoucheurs was Francois
Mauriceau.

17. Peter Chamberlen developed
the obstetric forceps which
famously remained the
Chamberlens' family secret for
the best part of a century.

18. Chamberlen forceps date back to the 16th Century

19. Caesarean section
The developments of asepsis
and anaesthesia in the 19th
century paved the way for the
introduction of caesarean
section.
The name “caesarean” is
probably derived, not from
Julius Caesar, but from the
Latin caedere, to cut.
The first successful Caesarean
section was said to performed
in 1500 by pig-gelder Jakob
Nufer.

21. The first Caesarean section in Russia
was performed by Erasmus Iohann
Friedrich in 1756.
One of the first Russian doctors to
perform C-section was Эдуард
Христианович Икавитц.

22. External Cephalic Version
External version has
apparently been practiced
since the time of Aristotle.
The rebirth of the use of
external version occurred in
the early 1980s in the United
States.