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for each guinea, which tickets shall entitle two poor married women
to delivery at their own dwellings.
As the execution of this plan will be attended with
very little difficulty, and is calculated to render male-midwifery unnecessary,
as well as to promote the comfort of many poor woman, it is hoped it will
not want advocates. It is certainly the duty of all those who are averse
to male-midwifery, and who wish to prevent their wives and daughters from
falling sacrifices to an immodest fashion, to lend every possible encouragement
to this plan, intended to chase continental levities from this island,
and render its fair natives both MODEST and VIRTUOUS,
which they were once universally celebrated for.
Medical gentlemen of character, who are averse to male-practice, and
wish to take an active part in this design, are desired to leave a letter
with the publisher, which I will attend to; it shall not want my PECUNIARY
support, as far as may be compatible with my circumstances: my avocation,
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