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.

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    E I53 ] examination ! Can Englffhmen read and confider this bufinefs with indifference ? Can Englilh women encourage it without level- ling all the fex to an worfe than com^ mon proftitution ? To prevent it, therefore, as much as lies in my power, they (hall hear the plain truth; nor Ihall they dare to talk of indecent or grofs language, when it is uled to reclaim women from practices of the grofleft and mod fhameful a cl ions. I therefore repeat it again, and again, that their perfons are, by the ufe of iron inffruments, as conftantly uled as carefully concealed, rendered not only difguffful, but obnoxious. 4‘ D—n you,” faid Ned Y—g, of Salifbury, to a beautiful widow whom he married in his old age, “ your face is like an angel, ** but your perfon is like a and abfo-