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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    the lady is doubtful whether (he is, or is not, breeding ! This is coming to the point at once. The Doftor then proceeds to inform his pupils, cc That the Clitoris, with its Pre- “ putium, is found between the Labia on the 44 middle and fore^part of the Pubis, and 44 from the lower part of the Clitoris, the 46 Nymphre rifing, fpreads outwards, and 44 downwards to the Os Externum, forming 44 a kind of fulcus, or furrow, called the ** f°(fa magna, or Navicularis, for the di- 44 reft:ion of the Penis in coition, or of the finger in touching, into the VagmaP After having, in this (hameful manner, informed us, that God has made woman for the purpofe of a touching Doftor, lie modeftly tells
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