Dyscyplinować i pomagać – toruńskie akuszerki miejskie w XVIII wieku (kilka uwag na marginesie przysiąg i porządków akuszerskich).

Dyscyplinować i pomagać – toruńskie akuszerki miejskie w XVIII wieku (kilka uwag na marginesie przysiąg i porządków akuszerskich).

To Discipline and to Help – City Midwives (Stadthebammen) of Torun in the Eighteenth Century
(Some Remarks on Oaths and Statutory Orders for Midwives)

Katarzyna Pękacka – Falkowska

The paper is a contribution to the discussion on midwifery in Royal Prussia and Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the eighteenth century. We examine Torun’s municipal midwives’ (Stadthebammen) lives and work. E.g. we give an account of their duties, salaries, privileges and focus on their ambiguous relations with city physicians (Stadt-Physici), surgeons, barbers. In the appendix to the paper are contained two early modern oaths of Torun’s city midwives and a statutory order for them, which probably remained in force up to the year 1817, when Instruction vor die Hebammen in den kleine Städten und auf dem plätten Lande. Instrukcya dla Bab, dzieci z porodzenia przyimuiacych, w małych Miastach y na otwartych mieysach Kraiu was issued. The Hebammenordnung for Torun’s city midwives was a German translation of Panaiota Condoidi’s O poryadochnom uchrezhdenii babich’yeva dela v pol’zu obshchestwa (1754) and presumably was entered in the municipal records by Johann Thomas von Soemmerring, the city physician.

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