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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    A t xv ] that matrimony is almoft laughed down, and out of fafhion, with the fenfible part of mankind ; for what man of fenfe will marry any woman for her perfonal charms, when he knows that a male hair-dreffer is to ftrad- dle over her two hours every morning, and a Male-midwife is to examine her nipples, and touch her if he pleafes, for another hour ? and that too, not in the hour of labour, but at the end of three or four months after marriage, according to Smellie’s inftruclions. Nay, Husband?, start not ! I do aver, that this is a conftant practice, where the 9 object is deemed worthy of fuch kind attention^ as you will fee by the ext rads in the follow- ing Iheets, taken from the Father of Man- midwifery, Dr. Smellie. Let not, there- fore, the plate annexed be deemed indecent; it
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