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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    C ”4 ] lutely refufed to live with hen Perhaps too, I may not exceed the bounds of probability, if I impute the alarming progrefs a cer- tain crime, too deteftable to be named, has made in this kingdom fince Man-midwifery has become fo general. But tell me, Ladies, I will bring the matter home to your own fair bofoms; tell me, how you would like to have an elegant young Tire-women attend daily to drefs your hufbands’ hair ? And yet you are fo fimple as to expedt their love and fidelity, after you have expofed your heads, and tails too, to fafhion, folly, and fhame: and wounded the feelings of the man who loved you, fo as never to be perfectly reco- vered. I am however willing to believe, that many modeft and virtuous women have been led into thefie errors by the more experienced dames;