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For years, Michael Ransford had known he would need surgery for his umbilical hernia. “People said if it ruptured, it could kill me,” the sixty-year-old farmer told me. The pain…

The Bed-Rest Hoax

by Alexandra Kleeman,

The case against a venerable pregnancy treatment

Surviving a Failed Pregnancy

by Vanessa Gregory,

The medical ordeal no one wants to talk about

Parts and Labor

by Percival Willughby,

From Observations in Midwifery, by the English physician Percival Willughby, written around 1670 and published in 1863. One of two known copies of the book, which Willughby wrote “to inform…