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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![a little embaraffment to both parties. The truth is, the t ran factions between Men- midwives and married women are fuch, even when conduced in the moft decent manner poffible, that no woman ever did, or durft, relate them to her huf- band. The women repofe fecrets in their Midwife’s hands, which they are mutually interefted never to reveal; and a Man-mid- wife mull be fomething more or lefs than man, if he does not often avail himfelf of being made the keeper cf his patient's con- fcience. Let any man place himfelf in fuch a fituation with a fine woman, and, uniefs he be a Parfon, or a Confe(]ional Prieji, I afk, whether he would not be tempted to apply the nnguentum amoris to his patient or peni- tent ? When](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21931501_0115.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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