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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    [ ^6 ] atonement to her injured hufband, declared the whole truth in her laft hours Dr. Smellie, in the Introduction to his Treatife on Midwifery, fays : “ It is natu- 46 ral to frppofe, that, while the fimplicity of 44 the early ages remained, women would have 44 recourje to none but per pons of their own fex cc in difeales peculiar to it! Accordingly,” fays he, 44 we find, that in Egypt Midwifery was 44 pra51 fed by women.—What a pity it was, that the ufe of hooks, crotchets, pincers, boring fciflars, tapes and filleting, were not known to the poor Egyptians ! That the Egyptians, who knew how to preferve dead bodies three thoufand years, fo as to re- tain their living form, ihould have been This is a well-known fo
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