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
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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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    [ §5 ] or mode fly, or much more might: for, when I aflted the late Dr. Hill’s opinion on this Book, he replied (though himfelf a Man-midwife), u he could have furnifhed “ me with ten times better matter.” Every thing in this kingdom is now be- come either an art or a fete nee. I remember feeing, in Oxford-Road, a board, which in- formed the publick, in golden letters, that the owner of it was Night-man to her Royal Highnefs the Princefs Dowager of Wales; and I have lately heard of a Leg- maker to her Royal Grandfbn. Perhaps, too, the time is not far off, when men will offer their fervices to attend ladies to their ckatft f iercee; for the truth is, it is full as neceflary, as to attend them in any other G 4 labour.
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