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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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, ] chance to get fix-pence more; and then, like Mrs. Nurfe, hugs himfelf over his beer, ill having thus impoled upon a gentleman. 1 muft not pafs over another circumftance very injurious to the ladies who are attended by Men-midwives; for no fooner is fhe brought to bed, than the practitioner, tofhew his Do&orial importance, difpatches the two initials of his name to Mr. SI ip flop ; and Mr. Slipflop, adding a little warmth to the poor lady’s fuffocating hot bed-chamber, lays her down, for the firft ten or twelve days, in a fever; which pafles off for the milk fever, when it is attended with no other bad coil- fequences. Though](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21931501_0083.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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