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for them, but wish they were sent back to their wash-tubs,
&c. Women whose deportment is vulgar and disgustful, are by no means
proper for that profession, any more than those who have not well studied
it. Nor do I blame any female for rejecting their services, and prefering
those of HUMANE men; I only wish to censure those
who live in London, or other large places, where skilful and sensible
midwives can be procured, and yet expose their persons to men; nor would
I be too severe herein, as they have been led into this error, by men
whose interest it is to impose on them, by saying, they are not
safe in the hands of any woman.
Dr. Buchan does not mean that many lives have been lost by unskilful
midwives in delivery, but during the month; and as the best midwives have
very little knowledge of physic, it is right to call in a man when women
are threatened with too much fever, or with any other disorder. But this
is very different from the unnecessary employment of a man in the time of
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