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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    [ 53 ] to thofe men of fenfe and fentiment, who love their wives with pure affection ; and to thofe women, that are folicitous to wear down the charms of their youth in poffef- fion of the affection of their huibands, that this and my former Letter is addreffed. I cannot conclude, without mentioning a few circumftanees that greatly promote the bufi- nefs of the Male-pra£titioners, as well as encourage female patients; and that is, the innumerable ftories that every female nurfe is furnifhed with, to alarm the ladies they attend. There is not one of thefe nurfes who cannot, nay that do not, in the courle of a month’s fitting by the fide of their mii- trels’s bed, inform her of a thoufand in- fiances of the ignorance of female Mid wives, and of the Doelors fkill! How many wo- men
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