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  • The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery properties for menace and subjugation.

    Toni Morrison - Nobel Lecture 1997

  • The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery properties for menace and subjugation.

    Nobel Lecture 1993

  • The systematic looting of language can be recognized by the tendency of its users to forgo its nuanced, complex, mid-wifery properties for menace and subjugation.

    Nobel Lecture 1993

  • Actual contact with labor teaches him that much that he has read and had told to him by professors of mid-wifery in the lectures, is of but little use to him at the bedside.

    Philosophy of Osteopathy 1872

  • This is straight mid-wifery and will guide you through at least in ninety per cent of the cases you will meet in normally formed women.

    Philosophy of Osteopathy 1872

  • A student of mid-wifery can only learn a few general principles, before he gets into the field of experience.

    Philosophy of Osteopathy 1872

  • It is normal mid-wifery you want to know and be well-skilled in.

    Philosophy of Osteopathy 1872

  • If this is not the philosophy of mid-wifery what is?

    Philosophy of Osteopathy 1872

  • Right here I wish to say one word: I think it is very wrong to teach, talk and spend so much time with pictures, cuts, talks and lectures, and hold up constantly to the view of the student, births coming from the worst imaginable deformities and call that a knowledge of mid-wifery.

    Philosophy of Osteopathy 1872

  • One is mid-wifery, or treatment of the lower stomach during gestation and delivery.

    Philosophy of Osteopathy 1872

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