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Obstetrics Years Respectable Specialty Back Professor William P Dewees

知识 Obstetrics has only within the last 150 years become a respectable specialty. No further back than 1834, Professor William P. Dewees assumed the first chair of obstetrics at the University of Pennsylvania and had to brave considerable medical contempt and ridicule as a result—the delivery of children was then considered beneath the dignity of the medical profession.
Adjective: obstetric or obstetrical.
《》 doctors for women
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