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more particularly distinguish her sex; that she can discern
the container from the contents, what belongs to the mother from what
belongs to the child, as well as what is foreign to both. In short, she
ought to be skilled enough to give full satisfaction to all questions
that the most able anatomist could put to her, in respect to that part
purely necessary to the art of midwifery, and to its operations with mastery
and safety.
NOW the midwife,
especially one instructed in hospitals, ought to be well acquainted with
all that is essential and necessary to that effect; and she cannot but
be so, unless she is of herself incapable, or that those who are charged
with the instruction of pupils, wrong the confidence of the public.
I MYSELF know more than one midwife,
so well adeucated as to be able to give demonstrations on this subject,
to analize things by their names, either upon drawings of them, upon sleletons,
or upon the originals themselves. It is true, that these poor midwives do
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