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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    [ 33 ] fined, and, till of late, the mod edeemecj ' * i women in the world, for their modedv, beauty, and fidelity ; drange as it may ap- pear, I will pronounce, their degeneracy be- gan with the praftice of Man-midwifery, and mud end with the difufe of it, or have > ... *. ■ * .... a worfe end. I have the pleafure of knowing a great number of married women, who have al- ways thought on this fubjeft as I write. I - / . would as foon fend my wife to vifit a Co- vent-garden hodefs, as be familiar with thole Male-midwife trumpeters. “ Lard, Ma- dam, who is your Doflor ?” fays one. “ Well, “ I’ll never have a woman ; my Dodlor is “ the fweeted man ! fo gentle, fo humane, fo “patient!
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