William Smellie (obstetrician)
- William Smellie (obstetrician)
William Smellie, born 1697 in Lanark, Scotland, died March 5, 1763 in Lanark, was a preeminent obstetrician and has been called "the father of British midwifery".
He practiced medicine before getting a licence, but enrolled later at the University of Glasgow and received his M.D. degree in 1745. After training in obstetrics in London and Paris, he opened a practice in London and began teaching. He invented a "machine", an obstetrical manikin, for instructions. Smellie described the mechanism of labor, designed obstetrical forceps, devised a maneuver to deliver the head of a breech, and published his teachings. He is believed to have painted his own portrait.
The William Smellie Memorial Hospital which provided maternity services in Lanark closed in the early 1990s and was re-located to a unit at the Law Hospital in Carluke. This was also closed recently and maternity services moved to Wishaw General Hospital.
References
*Speert, H. "Obstetric and Gynecologic Milestones" (New York: The MacMillan Company, 1958).
External links
* [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/smellie_home.html William Smellie: "A sett of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment, of the practice of midwifery"] (London, 1749)] . Selected pages scanned from the original work. Historical Anatomies on the Web. US National Library of Medicine.
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