Hints to husbands : a revelation of the man-midwife's mysteries / By George Morant, late Grenadier Guards.

  • Morant, George.
Date:
1857
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Credit: Hints to husbands : a revelation of the man-midwife's mysteries / By George Morant, late Grenadier Guards. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    of man-midwifery soon became general in the French capital. The historian well and truly describes the state of society in those evil days, and how the manners of the age became, year by year, more lost to virtue, dignity, and honour, until at length all the better feelings of human nature, even religion itself, became a by-word and a mockery amidst the chaos of the Revolution. The ante-charabers of Versailles were daily besieged by crowds of titled, yet needy suppli- cants, who eagerly sought employment, favour, or distinction from the king's ministers or his mistresses, and mandates issued from them were obeyed without a murmur from Calais to the Pyrenees. What, then, was it which, in a country so profusely endowed with the riches of nature, and inhabited by a race of men so brave, so active, and so enterprising, has led to a con- vulsion attended with the unspeakable horrors of the French Revolution? The answer is to be found in the previous state of the country, and the general perversion of the national mind; in the oppressions to which the people were subjected, the vices by which the nobles alien- ated them; the corruptions by which morals were contaminated; the errors with which re- ligion was disfigured; the extent to which infi-