Today's honors Justine Siegemund, whose 1690 manual (The Court was the first German medical text written by a woman.

Further info via : https://t.co/zp3QxTk1Za

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An Irish tale says a girl kicked a pregnant frog with the words: may you never be delivered until I'm midwife to you.

The frog was a fairy living in the lake and the girl became the fairy's midwife. Her reward was a red cloak. She put the cloak on a tree, the tree caught fire.

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Anne Griffith b. 1734 was a midwife & herbalist on the Llŷn Peninsula, a pioneer in the medical uses of foxglove (Digitalis) for “weakness of the heart” before it was scientifically recognised in 1785
More info: https://t.co/k734CtZGrT

🖼️Otto Müller

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Pregnant Narinder huh? My Narinder has dealt with 2 spouses being pregnant before and knows how to help with relaxing when they are tired and stressed.
Also being Head Midwife, he knows a lot about it, like drinking a lot of milk so your teeth doesn’t fall out lol

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The Doctor is In 🌙✨ Rodrig is the clan's resident physician and midwife, and is known for both his timid, shy nature and incredibly kind bedside manner in equal measure.

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'The real reason for the midwife's abstention was not that fairy food was distasteful, but that she durst not touch it, under penalty of never again returning to the light of day.'
-Edwin Sidney Hartland

🎨Arthur Rackham

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HEY

YOU

LET ME I WANNA PLAY VIDEOGAMES

let's hang out, i'll tell my midwife story, and then we will get through some more Yakuza 0 the perfect Christmas game!!
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link in bio ⤴️

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Look I just think Divine x Midwife is an interesting ship

They'd either kill eatch other or become madly in love during a fight to the death, move in a cottage together and try to eat eatch other 2 weeks later because one of them forgot to go "grocery shopping"

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Noma's unsually stout build for a Kaminoan stems from a growth disorder she was born with.
As per their eugenics poilicies she would have been terminated had it not been for her mother, a midwife, growing more attached to life than Kaminoan's usual coldness and hid her away.

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Day 101 of every character 'til

He's finally back up on his feet! A little shaky, but he's good.

Oh, and here's Midwife. I promise she won't eat him.

...Maybe.

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de Hooch was born in Rotterdam, son 2 a bricklayer & midwife. He was believed to have studied under Nicolaes Berchem. From 1650 he was under the patronage of a merchant & travelled to The Hague, Leiden & Delft. Soldier (c1650) & Woman with Basket (1651) & Man Offering Wine (1653)

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A midwife, once cast out into the swamps after a birth gone wrong, now has to be persuaded to save her very village from a strange fever. But will the party be able to find her? And is she cure or curse?

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CRAIGE ELS will be at
Craige has recently appeared in Doctor Who Flux as Karvanista & the Chief Sea Devil in Legend of the Sea Devils. He’s also appeared in Ripper Street, Call The Midwife & Coronation Street.
To book your tickets, visit https://t.co/U71sjwKF4G

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Back at it again with origin explanations! Why hello Bellibolt~

It's an Iberian midwife toad. They're a threatened species found in Spain/Portugal. And are characterized by their orange spots, green/brown coloring and are famous for their calls that sound like electronic beeps.

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The only queen and "midwife"
I might later on draw what would SquirrelThroat's kit's look like

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5 star industry
"A highly entertaining and informative memoir that was able to take me from laughing out loud to having welled tears of empathy."
https://t.co/uH49C3j45s
Likened to

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dont rt please//

i sketched that knight au idea i had, moreso the part where Andrew and Norton get even about seeing eachother's face

also andrew knows medicine thanks to his mother, she was a midwife charged of witchcraft for learning more modern medicine

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