cian may moreover be requisite : this is an additional charge.
A N S W E R
A HAPPINESS founded on opinion
only, is rather too slightly founded, especially in a point where not
less than life is at stake. I know there are women so obstinately wedded
to their opinion of certain pretended doctors, that they would not look
upon it to be a good office done them, though certainly it would be one,
to undeceive them. I also know that the title of doctor is so common in
this country, that it ought to be very cheap.
MOST of the women in labor,
(you say) will have men to assist them, as thinking their life more in
safety with them, than in the hands of women. May be so. But what does
that prove but the deplorable blindness, the weakness of the human understanding,
and the silly prejudices in favor of novelty? Is it then the instruments
of these men-midwives that give this confidence or this security? As if
a king, a queen, or princess dangerously ill, could be
