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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    \ [ 115 1 dames ; but I will pronounce the woman, who reads thefe Jheets, to be unworthy of her buJbancTs love, if afterwards, fhe admits any other affiftance in labour but thofe of her own fex, unlefs the Female-midwife abfolutely declares her own inability. It has been faid by many women, and probably will be laid again, u That Mr. T writ a book “ againft the womenbut let me allure them, the real tendency of this Book is to (hew a proper regard to their honour, their persons, their lives, their health, and their domestic happiness. THE END, AND THE END TOO OF MAN-MIDWIFERY,