But the midwives feared God, and did not do as the king of Egypt had commanded, but saved the men children.
And the king of Egypt spoke to the midwives of the Hebrews: of whom one was called Sephora, the other Phua, 1:16.
And because the midwives feared God, he built them houses.
Pharaoh summoned the two Hebrew midwives before him; they were mother and daughter; some say their names were Jochebed and Miriam, but others Jochebed and Elizabeth.
Now the Thamudites ordered ten midwives to attend on the women in their confinement, and if a child were born with the signs indicated by the prophet, it was to be destroyed instantly.
A few women dispensed medicine and enjoyed reputations as doctors, but it was in the field of obstetrics and as midwives that they made their most important contributions.
Retention of the placenta is the one contingency dreaded by native women, but the midwives say that it is as rare as it is dangerous.
All the midwives that have been questioned agree that mal-presentations are uncommon, and that only one case of an arm-presentation had occurred within their experience.
The midwives are reputed to be exceptionally clever, and the labours easy and safe.
The excessive mortality among Fijian infants makes it necessary to examine very closely the practices of the native midwives at the risk of wearying the reader with somewhat technical details.
Among the inland tribes the midwivesoften introduce the hand to extract the placenta, but among the coast people they believe it to be an experiment which is better left alone.
The midwives deny that it does, but some women declare that it is a good thing for the "bad blood" to drain out of the cord.
Midwives differ on the point of the moment at which the umbilical cord should be severed.
In cases of mal-presentation the midwives know how to give assistance.
In Germany, midwives are expressly prohibited by law from treating any affection of the eyes or eyelids of infants, however slight.
In due time Sophia was delivered of a child, which the midwives examined and found to be a girl with a face sheenier than the moon.
Several observing moralists have remarked that the practice of employing men-midwives has increased the corruption among married women.
It was to the midwives that they applied, in the first ages of the Church, to be assured of that fidelity which Christian virgins had vowed to their state of chastity.
And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that He made them houses.
What made the striking difference between the ancient Hebrews and Egyptians, of whom it is said: "The Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them?
And the midwives said unto Pharoah, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them.
According to Roman law, midwives were recognized as a distinct class in society, and enjoyed certain rights and immunities in common with the medical profession.
The ladies of this country should take a lesson from the American ladies, who not only prefer midwives of their own sex, but actually employ female physicians.
But themidwives feared God, and did not as the King of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men-children alive.
Of course most of these deaths are caused by unclean midwives and quacks, but a large number of them are brought about by incontinent husbands.
In the puerperium it is often an infection brought on by dirty midwives or physicians.
We commonly deem parturition merely a physiological process, and for that reason the state permits ignorant midwives and quacks to take upon themselves with impunity the responsibility and the risks of delivery.
The passage in vindication of the Egyptian midwives was not merely added later.
And who can doubt but when the midwives had made known the king's murderous command, that the women would delay to send for the midwives, till, by the help of each other, the children were secured?
As Augustine saith, There are some lies which are spoken for another's safety or commodity, not in malice, but in benignity, as the midwives to Pharaoh.
Are not the midwives rewarded by God for saving the Israelitish children by a lie?
In due time, Sufiyeh was delivered of a child, which the midwives took and found to be a girl with a face more radiant than the moon.
The midwives took the new-born child and cut the cord of his navel, after which they anointed his eyes with kohl and named him Taj el Mulouk Kharan.
Together with a Proposal for Organising an Institution for Training Midwives and Midwifery Nurses.
And further, has he not said: "The midwives are respectable women and have a character to lose.
Admirers of God's truthfulness may likewise wonder why he rewarded the midwivesfor telling Pharaoh a lie, when by his power he might have saved them the necessity.
The other midwives connected with the same charitable institution as the woman already mentioned are twenty-five in number, and deliver, on an average, ninety women a week, or about three hundred and eighty a month.
Yet all this time this woman was crossing the other midwives in every direction, scores of the patients of the charity being delivered by them in the very same quarters where her cases of fever were happening.
Under the Midwives Act 1902, every council of a county or county borough is the local supervising authority over midwives within its area.
It will be useful to quote here a part of the appeal directed to midwives and nurses: "Cancer may occur at any age and in a woman who looks quite well, and who may have no pain, no wasting, no foul discharge and no profuse bleeding.
Latin for the use of matrons and midwives ignorant of Greek.
Roman midwives frequently called to their aid practitioners who made a special study of diseases of women.
These women must not be confounded with the midwives who on monuments are always described as "obstetrices.
We cannot follow the unfolding of the foetus in the matrix as we pursue that of the chick in the egg; the opportunities of observing it are few, and we can only know what anatomists, surgeons, and midwives have written thereon.
This proposed amendment should without doubt include midwivesas well as nurses.
It can do no harm to make the intent of the law as regards physicians plainer, and it would be an immense step forward to include nurses and midwives in the section.
If further proof were necessary, it is afforded by the testimony of Occidentals who have lived in China, that Chinese midwives are extremely skillful in producing early abortion.
Does anyone believe that physicians and midwives who perform abortions go from door to door soliciting patronage?
All the midwives in the town are his intelligencers; but nurses and young merchants' wives that would fain conceive with child, these are his idolaters.
We in humble obedience to your Lordship's command have this day called unto us the Chirurgeons and midwives whose names are hereunder written who have by the directions of Mr. Dr.
Then suddenly came the midwives from all quarters, who groping her below, found some peloderies, which was a certain filthy stuff, and of a taste truly bad enough.
So, too, although the midwives had a good will with regard to saving the children, yet their will was not right, inasmuch as they framed falsehoods.
And because the midwivesfeared God, He built them houses"; on which a gloss of Gregory (Moral.
This, according to him, was where he tested the rainforest plants the shamans and midwives brought in.
Still, the old shamans and midwives all know of herbs they claim can cure everything from menstrual cramps to cancer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "midwives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
