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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    [ 7* ] London or Paris, to recolledt how many thoufand hump-backed, miferable, maimed, and decrepid objects they daily fee in thefe two kingdoms, where Man-midwifery is be- come almoft the univerfal practice; yet I do aver, that to the beft of my knowledge, though I have feen thoufands of Indians in America, and Negroes in the Weft-Indies, I never faw one hump-backed perfon in my life among either : yet thefe people never heard of Men-midwives. But before I conclude, I will relate a ftory, which I am forry and afhamed to relate, becaufe I was an interefted party in it. A young wo- man, for whofe perfonal fafety I was anxious, being in labour, at a time I was too young to have confidered the bu fine is or conlequences of
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