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Definition of Childbeds
1. childbed [n] - See also: childbed
Lexicographical Neighbors of Childbeds
Literary usage of Childbeds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1878)
"It is very striking how many pathological deliverances and irregular childbeds
I found among the 25. Four times severe haemorrhage took place after the ..."
2. Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical Literature by John McClintock, James Strong, Roul Tunley (1883)
"The women were blessed with happy childbeds and the girls with pleasant husbands.
Л great festival was solemnized every year in honor of all these gods. ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1868)
"After so many childbeds, in your eyes Do still new starres, and constellations
rise, And the same sparkle keeps awake those fires In your king, ..."
4. The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty: Together with the Observations by William Petty, John Graunt (1899)
"... we shall find Anno 1659, there were 226 childbeds; and Anno 1631, 112, viz.
not \\ Wherefore I conceive that the true number of the ..."
5. Charicles: Or, Illustrations of the Private Life of the Ancient Greeks. With by Wilhelm Adolf Becker (1889)
"There is no doubt that elderly and experienced women used to visit and offer
their assistance at childbeds and in cases of illness. Quite different, however ..."
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