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Samuel Gregory , Man-Midwifery Exposed and Corrected
The man-midwifery controversy continued throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. In the American press, Samuel Gregory argued with some of the authors from the past and added his own thoughts, which echoed ideas already more than 100 years old.Quote from page 48

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MAN-MIDWIFERY

EXPOSED AND CORRECTED.

OR

THE EMPLOYMENT OF MEN TO ATTEND WOMEN IN CHILDBIRTH, AND IN OTHER DELICATE CIRCUMSTANCES, SHOWN TO BE A MODERN INNOVATION, UNNECESSARY, UNNATURAL, AND INJURIOUS TO THE PHYSICAL WELFARE OF THE COMMUNITY, AND PERNICIOUS IN ITS INFLUENCE ON PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC MORALITY; AND THE WHOLE PROVED BY NUMEROUS FACTS, AND THE TESTIMONY OF THE MOST EMINENT PHYSICIANS, IN BOSTON, NEW YORK, AND OTHER PLACES; AND THE EDUCATION AND EMPLOYMENT OF MIDWIVES RECOMMENDED;

TOGETHER WITH
REMARKS ON THE USE AND ABUSE OF ETHER, AND DR. CHANNING'S "CASES OF INHALATION OF ETHER IN LABOR."


BY SAMUEL GREGORY, A.M.
LECTURER ON PHYSIOLOGY, &c.


"I view the present practice of calling on men, in ordinary births, as a source of serious evils to childbearing, as an imposition upon the credulity of women, and upon the fears of their husbands, and as a means of sacrificing delicacy, and consequently virtue."
Thomas Ewell, M.D., of Virginia.
"I have long labored under the conviction, that the office of attending women in their confinement should be intrusted to prudent females."
A. McNair, M.D., Philadelphia.
"No man should ever be permitted to enter the apartment of a woman in labor, except in consultations and on extraordinary occasions. The practice is unnecessary, unnatural, and wrong--it has an immoral tendency."
W. Beach, M.D., New York.
"We should be perfectly satisfied to have any improvements in this kind of practice, and under no circumstances would we object to multiplying proper female midwives."
J.V.C. Smith, M.D., Editor of the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.
"In the submission of women to the unnecessary examinations of physicians, exposing the secrets of nature, it is forgotten that every indecency of this kind is a violent attack against chastity; that every situation which produces an internal blush is a real prostitution."
Count Buffon, the celebrated writer on Natural History.
"I have ever believed that there would be a time when this sinful practice should be exposed and extirpated from the earth; and now, blessed be God, light begins to dawn on the subject. Success to the enterprise."
Rev. Wm. Miltimore, New Hampshire.
"The French government wisely support such schools [institutions for the instruction of midwives] at the present day."
Rev. Wm. Jenks, D.D., Boston.--Comprehensive Commentary.


BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY GEORGE GREGORY,
25 Cornhill.
NEW YORK: FOWLERS AND WELLS,
131 Nassau Street.
And to be had of Booksellers and Periodical Dealers generally.


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