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cealed from her sight, but never from her imagination, than the actual
presence of all the apparatus of the rack, where that torture is in use.
IT were to be wished, that all
the men-midwives, who had wrote on this matter, had suppressed the mention
of their instruments; for as their books often fall into the hands of women,
so deeply interested as the sex is in that subject, it is not to be imagined
what bad effects they have. Their variations among themselves would be sufficient
to frighten the women: you meet with authors condemning in the morning the
over-night's sentiment. I can observe them losing their way in systematical
errors, which explain nothing to me, and in which nothing can be discovered
but disagreement with one another, and with themselves. The wisest and most
able of them, after having well examined all the kinds of instruments hitherto
invented, have doubtless seen and been convinced of their ridiculousness
and usefulness, but all of them have not hitherto dared to speak out and
say as much.
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