A treatise on the improvement of midwifery : chiefly with regard to the operation. To which are added fifty-seven cases / By Edmund Chapman.

  • Edmund Chapman
Date:
1753
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Credit: A treatise on the improvement of midwifery : chiefly with regard to the operation. To which are added fifty-seven cases / By Edmund Chapman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as would not give the leaft Offence to the moft modeft Reader. The Ufe of Hooks and fame other Inftruments, by which Liv¬ ing Children, Prefenting with the Head, are deftroyed, when they might very eahly have been Ex¬ tracted in a few Minutes by the Fillet or Forceps, is, in my Opi¬ nion, a moft cruel and unwarrant¬ able PraCtice. But yet, however inhuman, it is, to my certain Knowledge, by Some kept up to this Day. A fond Mother in this City lately told me, with a Flood of Tears, that This was her un¬ happy Cafe. The Child had lam long with its Head in the Vagina, and lo low that the Midwife then B 3 attend-
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