Man-midwifery analyzed; or the tendency of that indecent and unnecessary practice detected and exposed. Addressed to John Ford, late surgeon and man-midwife ...

Date:
1790
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Credit: Man-midwifery analyzed; or the tendency of that indecent and unnecessary practice detected and exposed. Addressed to John Ford, late surgeon and man-midwife ... Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    being near neighbours in the fame county; and then I was peftered with abufive anony- mous letters from every part of the kingdom, fuch as, 66 Call in your rajcally book, you “ jcoundrel, or you will be done for, &c. &c.” even to the amount of four or five (hillings a poll; and then it was, that I publifhed the firfl Edition of Man-midwifery analyfed. Eut, as I have obferved above, the womb of time brings {(range things to light; for notice was fent me foon after from Ipfwich, * » that my objletric friend, and Author of the Reply was run away ; and that one of his female patients, a reputable Maltfter’s wife of the town, had fworn he had availed him- felf of his touching qualifications, and had actually raviflied her. I therefore vifited the injured lady, and offered her my fervices in /