DoHistoryArchivesite maptech helpabout sitesearch

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
 
View thumbnails of the 58 pages in this document
 
View Image
View Image
 
<

Page 65

>

on M I D W I F E R Y 65

   NOTHING however can be more pitiful , than the injustice of running down a sex, which has, in this very matter of midwifery, served the whole earth through all ages, till just the present one, that a small part of the world, becomes an imagination, all of a sudden a land of Goshen, or the only enlightened spot, and takes the ignis fatuus of a mercenary presumption for the sun-shine of sound reason. But after this injustice, where will the men stop? What profession will they leave to the women? It will at last be discovered, that the men can spin, raise paste, cut out caps, pickle and preserve better than we do. After all, is it not even ridiculous to see a custom, established for above five thousand years, universally approved by great and little, fall into disgrace, I will not say by the opinion, but by the whim of a handful of people, most of whom too are, most probably, perfectly sensible of the nonsense and absurdity of that whim, but defend it from a spirit that can hardly not be suspected of interestedness, which indeed will make men defend any thing?

 
F
AND
<   >

 Title page   Dedication page i   Dedication page ii   Dedication page iii   Dedication page iv 
 Preface page i   Preface page ii   Preface page iii   Preface page iv   Preface page v 
 Preface page vi   Preface page vii   Preface page viii   Preface page ix   Preface page x 
 Preface page xi   Preface page xii   Preface page xiii   Preface page xiv   Preface page xv 
 Preface page xvi   Contents page i   Contents page ii   Contents page iii   Contents page iv 
 Contents page v   Contents page vi   Page 31   Page 32   Page 33 
 Page 34   Page 35   Page 36   Page 37   Page 38 
 Page 39   Page 52   Page 53   Page 54   Page 55 
 Page 56   Page 57   Page 58   Page 59   Page 60 
 Page 61   Page 62   Page 63   Page 64   Page 65 
 Page 66   Page 67   Page 68   Page 69   Page 70 
 Page 71   Page 72   Page 73 




home your interests who was Martha? Martha's diary book film doing history archive on your own