John Maubray was a Scottish

Scotland

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 physician, who practised in London

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 as an early teacher of midwives. He wrote a book called "The Female Physician" published in 1724, and became chairman of the Charitable Corporation

Charitable Corporation

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As a member of a group of London based man midwives he was a follower of the ideas of the Dutch surgeon, Hendrik van Deventer (1651–1724), whose wife was also a midwife.

The following is a quote from Maubray's "The Female Physician":

"men...being better versed in Anatomy, better acquainted with Physical Helps, and commonly endued with greater presence of Mind, have been always found readier or discreeter, to devise something new, and to give quicker Relief in Cases if difficult or preternatural

Preternatural

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births, than common midwives generally understand."