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 Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anitishinsky 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 a 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.

Willie Smelly.

So Willie Smelly he lived between 1697 and 1763, he was a Scottish obstetrician, obstetrician,

obstetrician.

Sure, I'm sure James could make one of those work in the edit.

He lived in London and he was basically, obviously midwifery, he was going on for thousands

and thousands of years but he was the first male who was allowed 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 four sets with some designs and

he was a very important figure in that world.

He designed Manakin, 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.

Cool.

There was an anatomist called Robert Campbell who said he could scarcely tell the difference

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