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

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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$\ E 68 ] 44 between the featherbed and the cloaihs, at a 44 fmall difiance from one another, on each fide 44 of the patient. That this conveyance may 44 be more eafily effected, the legs of the infiru- 44. went ought to be kept in the operator's fide- 44 pockets. Thus provided, when he fits down 46 to deliver, let him fpread the fheet that hangs 44 over the bed upon his lap, and under that 44 cover take out and difpofe the blades on each 44 fide of the patient ; by which means he will 46 often be able to deliver with the forceps, 45 without their being perceived by the woman 44 herfelf, or any other of the affiants. Some 44 people pin a fheet to each Jhoulder, and 44 throw the other end over the bed, that they 44 may be the more effectually concealed from the 44 view of thofe who are p'efent. But this 44 method is apt to confine and embarrafis the 44 operator.$