2021-11-05
46 分钟Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Peterborough.
My name is Dan Shriver, I am sitting here with Anna Tyshinski,
Andrew Hunter Murray and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go.
Starting with fact number one and that's my fact,
my fact this week is that the man known as the father of British midwifery was called Willie Smelly.
So childish.
So childish.
Willie Smelly.
So Willie Smelly, he lived between 1697 and 1763.
He was a Scottish obstetrician.
Obstetrician.
Obstetrician.
Sure, I'm sure James can make one of those work in the edit.
He lived in London and he was basically you know obviously midwifery was going on for thousands and thousands of years but he was the first male who was allowed sort of into the game and he did quite a lot of things to sort of turn it into somewhere that was a bit more safer
for having babies.
He sort of helped to advance the use of forceps with some designs and he was a very important figure in that world.
He designed a mannequin, didn't he, that would let you learn how to deliver a baby.
It was known as the mock woman or sometimes this most curious machine.
It had legs and feet that would have shoes and stockings on it so that made it quite realistic.