Man-midwifery dissected ; or, the obstetric family-instructor : In fourteen letters. Addressed to A. Hamilton. Occasioned by certain doctrines contained in his letters to Dr. W. Osborn / By John Blunt [i.e. S.W. Fores].

  • Fores, Samuel William, 1761-1838.
Date:
[1795?]
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Credit: Man-midwifery dissected ; or, the obstetric family-instructor : In fourteen letters. Addressed to A. Hamilton. Occasioned by certain doctrines contained in his letters to Dr. W. Osborn / By John Blunt [i.e. S.W. Fores]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by the labour pains only ? In fcooping out child] en’s b rains, when there is no manner of difficulty in the cafe? In cutting open the bellies and wombs of women, who after- wards bear living children ? In working near three hours at the heads of children with fteel inhruments, eight hours before the pains arrive at their greateft force ? In tearing women’s perineei quite in two, from the frcenum labiorum to the anus, by the faid inftrument? In falling afleep over women, and being acceffary to the child’s death? In pra8;i(ing midwifery before it is fltidied, and caufing the child's death ? In tear- ing a patient’s womb, and cutting off a part of her inteflines ? In writing effays to prove, that an unborn child is not hurt, by plunging a perforator into its head ^ ? In uncovering women before a great number of boys. See. ? One famous accoucheur recommends and iifcs the lever, before the effe6l of the la- bour-pains be tried ; another, the knife; a third, the feiffiars and the crotchet. Thefe are /ome of the bleffed advantages of ■* Surely Dr. Olborn aded very imprudently herein, even if it were pofTible to prove it.