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The Great Obstetrician of Antiquity

Soranus, the Great Obstetrician of Antiquity, lived and worked in Roman territory in the second century CE. [Yes, his name is terribly unfortunate. Yet, let us remember that he and his contemporaries would have spoken Latin and Greek. So it may have been a very pleasing name. Let us hope so, for his patients' sakes.] [...]