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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    [ ] meat in order to obtain five; for the child was brought into the world by a horrid hook, which had been fixed in the focket of the eye, and was of this form ; but then there needed neither nurfe nor chriflen- tng! A little box and Bunhill-fields burying-* ground jinijhed the bujinefs ! T know the Male-practitioners will fay, I have told a d- -d rafcaUy lie ; for fuch lan- guage I have experienced before, and am pre- pared to meet again; but if they do, and th is Book gets into a fourth edition, I will in that give the ingenious Dodtor’s name, and 7 eftablifh
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