A health professional is an individual who
provides preventive, curative,
promotional or rehabilitative health care services in a systematic way to
people, families or communities.
Eucharius Rösslin (Roslin, Rößlin), sometimes
known as Eucharius Rhodion, (c.
1470 – 1526) was a German physician who authored a book about childbirth called
Der Rosengarten ("The Rose Garden") in 1513, which became a standard medical
text for midwives.
Two midwives assisting a woman in labour on a
birth chair, from Der Rosengarten
("The Rose Garden"), a medical text published in 1513 by German
physician Eucharius Rößlin for the use of midwives.