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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    [ » ] He accordingly wrote me a very penitential letter; allured me of his perfect innocence; defired me to confider him as a man driven from his family, his bufinefs, and his bread ; and protefted, that when he publilhed his Reply to my Letter, he was an utter Gran- ger to the Author of it. I replied, that I conlidered there lay a wide difference, be- tween being juftly offended with a man for unmerited abufe, and that of punifhing him wTith death or ruin ; that my evidence could not injure him, if it rendered him no fervice. Whereupon he fur rendered at the Affize-time, at St. Edmund’s-Bury; and, after a hard ftruggle of fix hours, though the woman fwore pofitively that he had ravifhed her, he was acquitted; for many
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