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WHAT has engaged men to invent
and bequeath to their successors so many wonderful productions, for such
they imagine them? Is it not the thirst of fame and money? These gentry
have judged, that they ought to spare no lucubrations, no labor of the
head, no efforts of the tongue and pen to procure themselves a strange
reputation, supported by these horrible instruments. But these lucubrations,
this labor of the head, would have been much better employed in seeking
for the means of absolutely doing without them, as our good female practicioners
have ever done, and as those of them still do, who are instructed in the
right practice.
WE are no longer in the times of
the Pharaohs and the Herods, who mercilessly massacred the innocents; we
are no longer in the times of those pure Arabs, who were the inventors of
a number of cruel operations, and of several instruments, which often cause
more apprehension and terror to a woman in labor, though con-
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