Childbirth in 1854

I read this article about it:

Bogdan, Janet. “Care or Cure? Childbirth Practices in Nineteenth Century America.” Feminist Studies, vol. 4, no. 2, 1978, pp. 92–99. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3177452.

Which led me to:

Dewees, A Compendious System of Midwifery