Cartilla nueva para las matronas (Madrid, 1750): the examination manual for midwives

In 1750 the Real Tribunal del Protomedicato had a manual written for the women it was about to begin examining again. The prologue says why: the examination of midwives had been suspended in Castile alone by a royal pragmática, and study had stopped with it. The King, on the Council of Castile's advice, ordered every woman living by the office examined in theory and practice — and a cartilla made so that they could prepare for it.