Definition of "accoucheur" [ac•cou•cheur]

• A man who assists women in childbirth; a male midwife; an obstetrician. (noun)

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• "The professional accoucheur is unknown among Mahometans, who only engage midwives, these however being incredibly ignorant."
• "Ergot also had a history of medical use—as a labor-inducing drug that, according to one nineteenth-century physician, “expedites lingering parturition and saves to the accoucheur a considerable portion of time.”"
• "Of course superstition is at the bottom of this barbarity; the same which a generation ago made the silly accoucheur refuse to give ether because of the divine (?) saying “In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children.”"