Man-midwifery analyzed; or the tendency of that indecent and unnecessary practice detected and exposed. Addressed to John Ford, late surgeon and man-midwife ...

Date:: 1790

Credit: Man-midwifery analyzed; or the tendency of that indecent and unnecessary practice detected and exposed. Addressed to John Ford, late surgeon and man-midwife ... Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$\ [ 33 ] about executing what God has ordained, is mere ufelefs lumber. Poor mother Eve ! how fee is to be pitied when flie brought Cain and Abel into the world ! for Adam would have been afhamed to have lent her a hand. She was left (though the world was at Jlahe) to young Goody Nature. There were then neither barbed book-makers, for- cep-fmiths, nor brain-boring fciffar-cutlers; and yet, if poor Eve had failed, we fhould have had neither Hunters nor Fords ; Adam would have become a folitary widower; and mankind would have been confined to an individual, becaufe his Creator forgot to have willed one animal more; namely, a Man-midwife. Ladies,$