Man-Midwife, Male Feminist: The Life and Times of George Macaulay, M.D., Ph.D. (1716-1766)

Primary Documents

• A Catalogue of Several Libraries and Parcels of Books; Including the entire Libraries of William East, Esq; Mr. John Thornton; And George Macaulay, M. D., All lately Deceased. London: 1766. BL 128.i 12/3.
• A Letter from A Gentleman in Town to his Friend in the Country, Relating to the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: 1739.
• A Serious Address to the Public concerning the Abuses in the Practice of Physic. London: William Owen, 1752.
• A True Gentlemen's Delight. London: 1676.
• Acta Nationis Germanicae Facultatis Medica quae, convocata Natione, praelecta et examinata, digna judicata sunt, ut albo Nationis insererentur. Consiliariis Christophoro Sibenburger Carinthio, et Samuele Keller Hallense Saxone. Actorum Inclitae Nationis Germanicae Artistarum qui sunt Patavii, hoc est Theologorum , Medicorum, Philosophorum; Vol. 1. Padua: 1553.
• An Account of the Rise, Progress and State of the British Lying-in Hospital for Married Women, situated in Brownlow-street, Long-Acre, from its Institution in Nov. 1749, to Lady-Day, 1756. London: 1756.
• Anderson, William P. Silences That Speak. Edinburgh: Alexander Brunton, 1931.
• An Impartial Enquiry into the Legal Constitution of the College of Physicians, In London. London: J. Noon, 1753 . [Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine.]
• Archivio Antico Universitario di Padova, MS 291. [A list of graduates in medicine from June 1737 till 1 May 1747 with records of the subjects of their doctoral examinations.]
• ——.MS 242, f. 157. [Schedule of course offerings for 1738-39.]
• ——.MS 710, f. 189. [Latin letter of recommendation, dated 4 August 1738, for George Macaulay from professors of the medical school of the University of Edinburgh to authorities of the medical school Page  258of the University of Padua.]
• Asplin, William. "A Register Book of Christnings, Weddings And Burials. that have been Within the Parish of Banbury in ye County of Oxford From ye 29th of Septemr [sic] 1723."
• Banbury Borough Journal 1722-1761. Oxford County Record Office, B.B. XV/ii/i, 1722-June, 1761.
• Boswell, James. The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. 3 vols. London: The Navarre Society, 1924.
• British Library Add. MSS 32467, f. 12. Tillemans, Peter. "Gretworth: The House of Charles Howe Esq. taken 11 July 1725." [Tinted drawing].
• Browne, William. A Vindication of the Royal College of Physicians in Reply to the Speech of the Solicitor General.... London: W. Owen, 1753. Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, EPB/MSS. Tracts, MST. 182.4.
• Carlyle, Alexander. Autobiography. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1860, 3rd ed., 1861.
• City of Westminster Archives Centre. Register of St. James, Picadilly. Vol. 5. Baptisms 1761-1786.
• Couts and Company Archives, London. MS ledger books Ledger 24, 1749 and Ledger 39, 1762.
• Cox, Daniel. See, Macaulay, George.
• Cozens-Hardy, Basil, ed. The Diary of Sylas Neville, 1767-1788. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1950.
• Culpeper, Nicholas. A Directory for Midwives: Or, A Guide for WOMEN, In Their Conception, Bearing, and Suckling their Children. London: 1755.
• D'Arblay, (Burney), Frances (Fannie). Memoirs of Dr. Burney. 3 vols. London: Edward Moxon, 1832.
• Denman,Thomas. An Introduction to the Practice of Midwifery. 2 vols. London: J. Johnson, 1795.
• Douglas, John. A Short Account of the State of Midwifery in London. Westminster: 1736.
• Edinburgh City Archives. Ann Riddell to Lord Provost Archibald Macaulay, 13 January 1738. MS SL 12/28 Letter Book; Vol. 4, f. Page  259178 r.
• ——.MS 6165. A [Dean of Guild's Council] Scroll Act in Favor of Provost Mc Aulay [sic], August 17, 1737.
• ——.Town Council Records MS SL7/1 51, 6 Oct. 1725-17 July 1728. Tipped-in Printed Broadside, dated 4 February 1726.
• Edinburgh Parish Registers, 1712-1723.
• Edinburgh University Library. MS La.II. 604 1738, 1747. [Archibald Macaulay to a nobleman unnamed.] 23 Feb 1736.
• Extracts from the Records of the Convention of the Royal Burghs of Scotland, 6 July 1727.
• Facciolati, Jacobi. Fasti Gymnasii Patavini. 4 vols. Padova, 1757.
• Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. 30. 1760.
• Gibson, J. S. W. ed. Baptism Register of Banbury, Oxfordshire, Part Three, Volume 16: 1723-1812. For The Banbury Historical Society. Oxford: Parchment Ltd., 1978.
• ——.Burial Register of Banbury, Oxfordshire, Part Three, 1723-1812.
• Granville, Castalia, ed. Lord Granville Leveson Gower, Private Correspondence, 1781-1821. 2 vols. London: 1916.
• Houghton Library, Harvard University. MS diary of Thomas Hollis.
• Hunterian Library, Glasgow University. MS 43. [Christopher White's "Cursus Chemicus" by an unknown author, Medical Notes, Extracts, Receipts, Newspaper clippings, etc.]
• International Genealogical Index. Fiche C 0450 [Archibald Macaulay Family records].
• Irving, Joseph. The Book of Dumbartonshire. Vol. 2, "Parishes." Edinburgh: W. and A. K. Johnstone, 1879.
• Jackson's Oxford Journal, August 12, 1758 and January 30 1773, microfilm. Centre for Oxfordshire Studies, Oxford Central Library.
• Kelly, Christopher. Course of Lectures on Midwifery, Wherein The Theory and Practice of that Art are explained in the clearest manner. London: 1757.
• Lambeth Palace Library. Macaulay-Sawbridge marriage bond and application for license: 17 June 1760.
• La Motte, Guillaume Marquese de la. Traitè complet des accouchemens naturels, non naturels, et contre nature, explique dan un grand nombre Page  260d'observations et de rèflexions sur l'art d'accoucher. Paris: L. d'Houry, 1722.
• Lady Llanver, ed. The Life and Correspondence of Mrs. Delaney. Vol3. London: 1862, 6 vols.
• London Metropolitan Archive (formerly Greater London Record Office) MS H14/BLI/A1/1/1. The Minutes of the Lying-In Hospital Brownlow St. [LMB], 1749-1757.
• ——.MS H14/BLI/A1/2. The Minutes of the Lying-In Hospital in Brownlow Street [LMB], 1758 ff.
• ——.MSS H14/BLI/A3/1 and 2. Rough minute books labeled 'C'. Lying-in-Hospital of General courts and weekly governors' meetings in Brownlow Street, Long Acre, Minute-Book, Begun 10 August 1753.
• Macaulay, Archibald.
• ——.[Extract of letter dated at Edinburgh 18 Dec. 1744 to Charles Steward Esq. Conservator Depute at Campvere.]
• Macaulay, Aulay. Polygraphy or Shorthand Made Easy To the Meanest Capacity Being an Universal Character Fitted to All Languages Which may be learnt by this Book without the help of a Master. London: 1747.
• Macaulay, Catherine [sic, usually Catharine]. [Epitaph for George Macaulay]. European Magazine, vol. 4 (1783), 332.
• ——.The History of England from the Accession of James I to that of the Brunswick Line, vol. 1. London: J. Nourse, 1763.
• Macaulay, George [and Cox, Daniel (?)]. A Letter from a Physician in Town to his Friend in the Country, Concerning the Disputes at present subsisting between the Fellows and Licentiates of the College of Physicians in London. London: A. Millar, 1753.
• ——.ed. How[e], Charles. Devout Meditations or, A Collection of Thoughts Upon Religious and Philosophical Subjects. 2nd ed. Dublin: C. Wynne, 1754.
• ——.Last will and testament. PRO, Prob 11, 922, ff. 111r-111v, dated October 17, 1764 with codicil of November 2, 1764.
• ——.Letter to Charles Townshend, dated June 17, 1760. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library, Townshend Papers, MS 296/4/2.
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• ——.Letter to Charles Townshend, dated 1 July, 1760. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, William L. Clements Library, Townshend Papers, MS 296/4/1.
• ——.Letter to David Hume in Paris, dated 22 Mar 1764. Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Hume MS 23156, vi, f. 15.
• ——.Letter to William Williams, dated March 24, 1766. BL Add. MSS 21844, ff.414-15.
• ——.Letter to William Williams, dated April 28, 1766. BL Add. MSS 35447, f. 56.
• Macaulay, Joseph Babbington. Memoires of the Clan Aulay. Carmarthon: William James Morgan, 1881.
• Matriculation Roll of the University of Edinburgh: Arts-Law-Divinity, Vol. I 1623-1774. Transcribed by Morgan, Alexander, 1933-34.
• Mauriceau, Francois. Dernières observations sur les maladies des femmes grosses et accouchèes. Paris: David fils, 1712.
• Middlesex Hospital Archives. MS Fair Minute Book of the Board of Governors of Middlesex Hospital, 31 May 1748-3 April 1750.
• Minutes of the Proceedings of the Royal College of Physicians, Relating to Dr. Isaac Schomberg, from February the 6th, 1746 to December the 22nd, 1753. London: J. Robinson, 1764 [Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine].
• National Library of Scotland. MS 7075, ff. 110-11. [Archibald Macaulay to a nobleman unnamed] December 8, 1744.
• ——.MS 7076, f. 18. [Archibald Macaulay to a nobleman unnamed.] June, 13 1745.
• Nihell, Elizabeth. A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery. setting forth Various Abuses therein, especially as to the Practice with Instruments: The Whole serving to put all Rational Inquirers in a fair Way of very safely forming their own Judgment upon the Question: Which is it best to employ, In cases of Pregnancy and Lying In, A man-Midwife: or, a Midwife. London: A. Morley, 1760. Wellcome Institute, 38758/B.
• Northamptonshire Record Office. Estate and General Accounts of Charles Howe. MS YZ.997, Box X.1099, Acc. 1955/49.
• ——.Last will and testament of Charles How [sic], Esq. MS XYZ.993.
• Oxfordshire Archives. MS Oxf. Archd. Anon. c 156 ff. 44, 81.
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• ——.Banbury Borough Journal. MS B. B. XV/ii/i, , 1722-1761.
• Plato. Symposium. Trans. Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1989.
• "[Review of Elizabeth Nihell's] A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery."Critical Review, art. 9, vol. 4, 187-97.
• Riccoboni, Antonii. de Gymnasio Patavino commentariorum, lib. VI. Padua: 1598.
• Roll of Edinburgh Burgesses, 1701-1760.
• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. Three MS diaries by physicians serving the British Lying-In Hospital in Brownlow Street, recording cases of puerperal fever. 1769, 1770-71.
• ——.MSS (photostat) CR/F. William Smellie to Peter Camper, Dr. Clephane, Dr. Pitcairn, et al. Various dates from 1750-59.
• Royal College of Physicians. "Dr. William Hunter's Lectures on Midwifery." MS 186.
• ——.Statua Collegii Medicorum Londinensis, chap. 15, 73. MS 1711.
• Royal College of Surgeons. [Monro, Alex (Primus)]. "Anatomy, History of." MS 42.a.40, quarto, 148 pp.
• Scottish National Library, Edinburgh. Tobias Smollett to George Macaulay, December 14, 1756. MS 5308.0604.
• Scottish Record Office. A Catalogue of the Fellows, Candidates, and Licentiates of the Royal College of Physicians, London [1752]. MS GD 125/23/10/19 r. and v.
• ——.[A note dated in Bridge Row, March 13, 1753 and addressed to Dr. Clephane in Golden Square, London]. MS GD 125/23/10(2).
• ——."A Proposal to set aside all Law-suits...." [printed leaflet] London: December 20, 1753. MS GD 125/23/10(8).
• ——.[Dean of Guild's Council] Scroll Act in Favor of Provost Mc Aulay [sic], August 17, 1737. MS 6165A.
• ——.Letter from Lord Allen Bathurst to John D[rummond?], 1 October 1729. MS GD 24/1/464C (Part 2), f. 87.154.
• ——.Testament dative and inventory of the estate of Archibald Macaulay of Ardincaple, Laird of Clan Aulay, dated March, 19, 1729. MS CC8/8/92 f. 93 v.
• ——.Testament dative and inventory of the estate of Archibald Macaulay, Page  263Father of George Macaulay and Lord Provost of Edinburgh, dated January 7, 1761. MS CC8/8/118/2, ff. 78 r. v.-79 r.v.
• Smellie, William. A Collection of Preternatural Cases and Observations in Midwifery. Vols. 2 and 3. London: W. Strahan, T. Cadell, and G. Nichol, 1779.
• ——."Case Book of 200 Years Ago." Midwife Health Visit, vol. 2, Feb. 1966, 68-70.
• ——.Medical Essays and Observations, vol. v, part. 1. London: 1784.
• Staple Contract, Betwixt the Royal Burrows of Scotland and the City Campvere in Zealand. Edinburgh: R. Fleming, 1749.
• Statua Collegii Medicorum Londinensis. Library of the Royal College of Physicians of London, MS 1711.
• St. James Parish Registers. Vols. 4 and 21.
• "St. James Picaddilly Burials, 1 July 1723 - 30 April 1754 and 1 May 1754 - 18 January 1762." Typescript indexed by R. W. L. Cherny (1972). City of Westminster Archives Centre.
• Stone, Sarah. Complete Practice of Midwifery. London: 1737.
• The British Coffee House—A Poem. London: W. Nichol, 1764. Microfilm, The Eighteenth Century, reel 4017, no. 2. Woodbridge CT: Research Publications, 1986.
• The European Magazine and London Review, 4 (1783), 330-4.
• The Ladies' Physical Directory, 7th ed. London: 1739.
• The London Chronicle, Feb. 17 - 20, 1763, 172-3.
• The London Practice of Physic. London: Robinson, Baldwin, and Goldsmith, 1792.
• "The Memoirs of Mrs. Macaulay," London Chronicle, Thursday, August 2, 1770.
• The Petition of the Unborn Babes to the Censors of the Royal College of Physicians of London, 2nd ed. London: M. Cooper, 1751.
• The Repository or Treasury of Politics and Literature for 1770, Vol. 2, 290-91.
• The Scotsman. "18th Century Lord Provost." July 17, 1946 [?].
• Thicknesse, Philip. Man-Midwifery Analysed: and the Tendency of the Practice Detected and Exposed. London: Davis and Caslon, 1765.
• Thornton, Bonnell. The Battle of the Wigs. London: 1768. Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, EPB.ID: X127939.
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• Town and Country Magazine, vol. 1. 1769.
• Vestry Book. Oxford County Record Office, MS D. D. Par. Banbury, c. 35.
• Williams, William. [Documents relating to Williams' appointment and powers of attorney.] BL MS 53860 408r-416v.
• ——.Letter of 24 April 1775 to General Thomas Gage. Gage Papers, American Series, 128. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan.
• ——.Letters of 28 April and 8 May 1781 to Louis Genway. BL MS 53860 404v and 405 v.
• Wollstonecraft, Mary. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects. Ed. Ulrich H. Hardt. Troy, New York: The Whitston Publishing Company, 1982.