A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery Setting Forth Various Abuses Therein, Especially as to the Practice With Instruments: the Whole Serving to Put All Rational Inquirers in a Fair Way of Very Safely Forming Their Own Judgement Upon the Question; Which It Is Best to Employ, in Cases of Pregnancy and Lying-in, a Man-midwife; Or, a Midwife

HAPPY! thrice happy it is for the midwives, that, at least, if avarice should tempt any of them to the injustice of hurrying a poor patient’s delivery, in order to attend a rich...

“THERE are (he goes on) however children with so large a head, that it remains stopped in the passage after the body is intirely got out, notwithstanding all the precautions tha...

I DO this writer this justice, with the more readiness and pleasure, for, that though he himself exercised the profession of man-midwife, and consequently in favor of his own pr...

NEVERTHELESS I greatly respect Hippocrates, and all the authors who have treated of this art. Some thanks are due to them, though but from those whom they have set to work in ou...

HERE you have from an unsuspected authority a certainly not over-rated importance of the expedience of preliminary TOUCHING. Now granting, only for argument’s sake, what is assu...

IT is now (1760) about forty years ago, that Palfin, a surgeon of Ghent in Flanders, and demonstrator of anatomy in the same town, went to Paris, and there presented to the acad...

IT is termed difficult, when the labor of it is hard, and the fœtus does not make its way out but with pain, and with the help and assistent industry of the midwife.

WHEN _the_ HEAD _of the fœtus presents itself foremost but sticks in the passage_, 289. _Objections to instruments more at large included under the title to this section_, 389....

FOR me, I dare yet go farther, and will maintain it, that those persons impose upon the public in such boasts: since the naturalized surgeons, those of the nation, those of Pari...

I HAVE myself been not a little surprized at hearing lately some ladies mention, with much approbation, the inimitable complaisance of certain gentlemen-midwives, who have the p...

THE conclusion against me that I shall oppose the torrent in vain, is a very just one. As to myself, I ought to expect that I should oppose it in vain, if the decision of the pu...

A HEALTHY woman, about twenty five years of age, and remarkably robust, was in labor of her second child. Her first had come in that natural smooth way, as had given the same ma...

THIS indeed is easily to be accounted for. A pregnant woman must especially, in the moment of her labor-pains, think herself too much in the power of the operator, to whom she h...

THUS far as to the handling this forceps of Levret’s, to whom the defectiveness of the English and French forceps had inspired an idea of providing such a supplement to it, from...

HERE I shall only request the reader to remember, what has been said of the indecent, superficial, and even cruel method of training up pupils in this upstart profession. But if...

THE reader will here please to observe, that in these cases of obliquity, almost every thing depends, as to the prognostication, and prevention of difficulties, as well as to th...

IT cannot however have escaped observation, that while I am, with the utmost regard to truth, endeavouring to recommend the preference of the hands to instruments, there is noth...

INOCULATION was not long since a novelty in this nation. The lady who introduced it, for any thing I know to the contrary, still lives to enjoy the honor of having procured so g...

AS to the discouragement of proper women from applying themselves to the profession, it can only cease by the concurring of those, on whom the choice out of either sex occasiona...

THE truth is, that most of the dangerous lyings-in are so far from being likely to be relieved by a man-midwife, that it is often to the having relied upon his medical judgment,...

A TREATISE ON THE ART of MIDWIFERY. SETTING FORTH VARIOUS ABUSES therein, Especially as to the PRACTICE with INSTRUMENTS: THE WHOLE Serving to put all Rational Inquirers in a fa...

NOW in such cases, a midwife, though never so skilful, will neither be ashamed nor backward to require such aid: whereas a man-midwife, the more ignorant he is, will be but the...

Have I any where said any thing STRONGER than this? Daventer, however, certainly did not mean by it to insinuate, that _all_ men-midwives answered intirely this description; no,...