Man-midwifery exposed, or the danger and immorality of employing men in midwifery proved and the remedy for the evil found : addressed to the Society for the Suppression of Vice. / By John Stevens.

  • Stevens, John, -approximately 1849.
Date:
[1866]
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Credit: Man-midwifery exposed, or the danger and immorality of employing men in midwifery proved and the remedy for the evil found : addressed to the Society for the Suppression of Vice. / By John Stevens. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    TO TH Peesident, Benevolent Ladies, and Eeveeend Gentlemen OP THE SOCIETY FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF VICE. Fbom time to time, I have seen, in the public prints, accounts of your laudable intentions and endeavours to suppress the dens of iniquity, bad houses, and snares for the seduction of young and unprotected females. Judging of the nature of your institution by these endeavours on the side of virtue I conceive it to be parti- cularly agreeable to you that a work such as this has been issued from the press, exposing, with a view of suppressing, a deep, silent, secret som*ce of adultery and cruelty—a silent, secret piece of well-dressed vice, fawning to the heart's best affections, like the reptile in the garden of Eden—a thing which entwines around and fascinates, the more surely to drive home the sting of dis- honour, and destroy its unsuspecting victim. A work, seconding your good efforts, is appropriately addressed to you, by Your humble and obedient servant, J. STEYENS, M.D. •OVAL OOLLS'-« 0^ nHTWOlAMt GLASS