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A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery, Setting Forth Various Abuses Therein, Especially as to the Practice with Instruments
Nihell, Elizabeth
1760
Published by Printed for A. Morley, London
Location of original: Countway Rare Books, Harvard University
 
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profoundly skilled operator and not of merely a common man-midwife.

   RUN over all the authors who have written on this matter, and you will find that the men-midwives, for want of right, and of true knowledge of the profession, have introduced themselves by force and violence, as one may say, sword in hand, with those murderous instruments : read the antients, it will appear, that they cut their way in, with iron and steel, fore-runners of murders. Our moderns to palliate these violences and injustices, agree on one hand, that the common and gentlest methods are to be preferred : but, on the other hand, when you tell them, that the common and gentlest methods are the hands of women, who ought therefore to be preferred to the men, and to be restored to their antient and rightful possession : then you will see the whole pack open in full cry : to arms! to arms! is the word : and what are those arms by which they maintain themselves, but those instruments, those weapons of death! would not one imagine, that the art of midwifery was an art-military?

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