Not sure if this is exactly the history you wanted, but here's a quote from Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson:

“During the 1930s, the federal government sent physicians to examine a sampling of Hill Country women. The doctors found that, out of 275 Hill Country women, 158 had perineal tears,” Caro says, citing the the results of a study that noted, “many of them third-degree ‘tears so bad that is difficult to see how they stand on their feet.’”

I'm not sure how/if you'd be able to find the original study, but it sounds like at least in this area of Texas the midwives weren't doing any stitching.

Usually a husband stitch means painful sex for the woman, sometimes to the point where they can no longer have sex or enjoy it.

Was it better for her, though?

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Fair, but they have lawyers and money is fungible. Your meat suit bits are much less so.

It's medical malpractice so you should also mention the lawsuits and complaints to licensing board that you will visit upon them as well.

This is interesting! I’ve already let my husband know that I’m relying on him to honestly communicate the amount of physical violence I will visit upon someone who tries a “husband stitch” on me. His fast talking will keep their body whole.

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You might find something on that in this book about the history of c-sections. It goes into a lot of detail about the changing field of surgery in general and how that intersects with the shift from female to male providers being in charge of birth. I wish I could be more specific but I don't have a copy of the book in front of me.

Good luck! It's a fascinating and disturbing history. I'd love to hear more about what you find.

They were not black africans, apart from the 25th dinasty, the nubian one, that didn't last long. Otherwise pharaos were like we can see today from the mummies, pictures on the ancient walls and statues

Like Charlize Theron and Elon Musk are African-Americans.

Thank you very much, this is exactly what I needed! The link is also very nice, might have to check out some of the other books on there as well

The guy was clearly replying only to the comment and not to the article humorously.

Western funereal practices with which I am familiar (admittedly only a subset of Western practices, and an even smaller subset of global practices) all include the application of make up in both living and dead contexts, and that was all the comment that was being replied to specified.

The comment mentioned nothing about the nature of the specific practices.

It was used on the dead, not by them

The dead did not apply it themselves

The last native Pharaoh was Nectanebo II, overthrown by about 343-341 BCE as a result of the Persian conquest, the King of Persia would then be crowned Pharaoh until Alexander conquered Egypt from the Persians in 332 BCE. Alexander died in 323 BCE and, following the wars of his successors, Ptolemy, a Macedonian Greek general, took over Egypt and created an ethnically Greek ruling dynasty that ended in 30 BCE with the death of Cleopatra. Egypt was then incorporated into the Roman Empire, and Emperors were seen as Pharaohs until Daza died in 313 CE.

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That’s a reason India was more profitable longterm than America. What it doesn’t say is “Britain devoted more resources to losing the second Mysore war than losing the Revolutionary war”….

…because they didn’t. In fact it wasn’t even close.

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...and I quote: "Consider the economics of Britain’s calculus. The raw goods to manufactured goods trade with the American colonies was profitable (North America accounted for thirty percent of English exports[15]), but it didn’t compare with the potential for gains in the East. Defending America had gotten expensive, as the Seven Years’ War showed, and the colonists were evidently unhappy to pay for that defense. In contrast, the colonial government in India made substantial revenue from taxes on Indians, and the goods traded, including but hardly limited to spices, were valuable. England was undergoing the agricultural and then the industrial revolutions; a growing market to sell goods was not overseas but right at home. This de-emphasized the market for exports, America, in favor of the source of imports, Asia."

The ancient egyptians seem to have used galena to make kohl, which is lead(II) sulfide.

To anyone thinking of picking up some kohl, do look out for lead content;

see https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetic-products/kohl-kajal-al-kahal-surma-tiro-tozali-or-kwalli-any-name-beware-lead-poisoning

The Ptolemaic Dynasty (Cleopatra) were Macedonian Greeks

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