Contents

• [front matter]
  • [title page recto]
  • [title page verso]
  • [dedication]
  • Acknowledgments
• Chapter One: Who was George Macaulay?
  • Roots and Relations: Inveresk to Garelock
  • [notes]
• Chapter Two: Early life: Edinburgh: 1716-32
  • Carola
  • [notes]
• Chapter Three: University: Edinburgh & Padua: 1732-39
  • Medical Care and Medical Education
  • Edinburgh Medical School; Padua, a double doctorate
  • [notes]
• Chapter Four: The Banbury Years: c. 1740-50
  • [notes]
• Chapter Five: London & Hospital Politics: 1751
  • Poland Street and St. James' Church, Piccadilly
  • The Muddied Mission of Middlesex
  • The Birth of Britain's First Hospital Exclusively Devoted to Obstetrics
  • George Macaulay and the British Lying-In Hospital for Married Women in Brownlow Street
  • George Macaulay's Appointment as Physician and Man-Midwife
  • [notes]
• Chapter Six: Widower, Editor, Litigant: 1751-52
  • Macaulay vs. Edwards; George's challenge to the Royal College of Physicians.
  • Aftermath: The Battle of the Wigs
  • [notes]
• Chapter Seven: The Midwifery Controversy
  • Pregnancy and Childbirth: Science and Folklore
  • Licensing and Male Pressure
  • Objections to male midwifery; Philip Thicknesse's Polemic Satire
  • Elizabeth Nihell's Treatise
  • Late Term Abortion: Cranial Reduction: The Petition of Unborn Babes
  • Facts against Polemics: The Hospital's Response
  • Macaulay and "The English Operation"
  • The Science of Anatomy
  • The Midwifery Debate Versus Midwifery Practice
  • [notes]
• Chapter Eight: Twin Brother to Benevolence: 1752-59
  • Patients' Diet
  • Regulation of Patients' Admission and Behavior
  • Expectations for Patients' and Employees' Behavior
  • Churching
  • Innovative Diapers and Institutional Kindness
  • Too Much Demand, Too Few Beds
  • Administrative Matters
  • Puerperal Fever
  • [notes]
• Chapter Nine: Treasurer, Private Practitioner: 1752-62
  • Macaulay's Private Practice
  • Social Life and the British Coffee House
  • [notes]
• Chapter Ten: Kith & Clan; Macaulay literatus
  • The Last Laird of Clan Aulay
  • Macaulay and Tobias Smollett: "Connexions with the Needy"
  • Macaulay, Smollett and The Critical Review: A Society of Gentlemen
  • A Paper Trail
  • Did George Macaulay Write for The Critical Review?
  • [notes]
• Chapter Eleven: Not Apollo's Firstborn Son
  • Second Marriage; Jermyn Street, St. James. Catharine and her History: 1759-65
  • Jermyn Street, St. James
  • George's Role in Catharine's Development as Writer
  • [notes]
• Chapter Twelve: The Final Years: 1764-66
  • Failing Health
  • The Birth and Survival of Catherine Sophia
  • Macaulay and the American Colonies
  • Final Illness and Death
  • [notes]
• Chapter Thirteen: A Life Well Lived: Epitaphs & Aftermath
  • Friend of the Poor; Husband of Catherine
  • Aftermath
  • Conclusions
  • [notes]
• Appendix A: Schedule of Classes at the University of Padua during George Macaulay's enrollment, 1738-39
  • [notes]
• Appendix B: A Catalogue of the Fellows, Candidates, and Licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians, London [1752]
  • [notes]
• Appendix C: A Case of Shivering in Half an Hour after Delivery from the Case-Books of Dr. Christopher Kelly
• Works Cited
  • Primary Documents
  • Secondary Documents
• About the Authors
• Index
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