Search : stillborn, elements, art, revolution, courage, homœopathy.

Date:
1866
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Search : stillborn, elements, art, revolution, courage, homœopathy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Hence, 99 women in 100 are subjected to the indelicacy and mischief of male manipulation quite needlessly. That is, as far as the patients are concerned, for the doctors certainly benefit; simple folk — aye, and those esteemed wise! — giving them the credit of having rendered in- valuable service; and, “ If you can get the ladies on your side, you may consider your fortune as nearly made; for they are very active friends.”* Greatly do accoucheurs dread the dilemma described thus: — “ For if he is absent when the child is born, they will think he ought to have been present; at all events, they are assured he has been of no service, and will grudge him his fee, or perhaps not pay it at all.”f In the “London Practice of Midwifery ” ad- vice is actually given how to remedy this mis- fortune. The question is plain; — Are ninety-nine wo- men to risk body and mind in order that medical students, a class proverbially devout! may learn the tactus eruclilus on the chance that one of them may, at some future period, be able to