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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    [ 43 ] on the perfon of a woman who is delivered as fhe ought, that is, by the unerring Old Lady, mentioned with fo much honour in the firft fheet of this Paper ; and to this old lady I hope to be the means of again making known all the young and amiable part of my fair country-women, who may be af- fured, that it is lefs Indecent to read this Letter to every man of their acquaintance in public, than to admit a Male-midwife in private; and thofe who are wife enough to rely on what is here faid, without any other view than their happinefs, will find, by * experience, that the Author is as much their friend, as he feems to be an enemy to the 4 Male-midwives; which, in truth, is not the cafe; for, as 1 faid above, it is the ;practice, not the men, that I mean to exhibit in
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