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 Hippocratic oath forbids abortion |
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c. -400 |
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c. 100 |
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| Romans invent ingenious baby's bottle |
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c. 200 |
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| Birth of the Biddenden Maids |
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1100 |
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| Contraception condemned by church physicians |
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c. 1200 |
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| Midwives employed by town councils |
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c. 1400 |
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| Rösslin publishes first textbook for midwives |
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1513 |
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| Gabriele Fallopia invents the condom |
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1564 |
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| Chamberlen invents obstetrical forceps |
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c. 1580 |
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| First documented Caesarian section in which mother survives |
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1610 |
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| Mary Toft gives birth to rabbits |
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| Men-midwives challenge women's right to deliver babies |
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| First lying-in hospitals founded |
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| William Hunter publishes Anatomy of the gravid uterus |
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1774 |
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| Charles Dickens stereotypes the drunken midwife |
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1843 |
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| First anaesthetic in childbirth |
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1847 |
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| Semmelweis washes hands to save life |
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1861 |
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| Marie Stopes opens birth-control clinic |
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| Grantly Dick Read advocates natural childbirth |
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1933 |
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| Robert James Minnit invents gas and air apparatus |
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1933 |
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| Prontosil reduces maternal mortality rate |
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1936 |
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| In vitro fertilization |
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1969 |
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1978 |
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| Dolly cloned |
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