men a plea for supplanting them, do not hitherto appear very advantageous
ones to the public. It remains, I fancy, to be proved, that population
is any gainer by the diminution of that evil, to which the instruments
or other methods of practice, employed by the men, are pretended to be
such a remedy.
TO examine this point is the object of the following
sheets ; the work being divided into two parts.
THE first treats of our title to the practice
of this art, of the pleas used by the men for arrogating to themselves
the preference, of the knowledge of Anatomy, of the necessity of the instruments,
of the incapacity of women, of the Fashion : and whether the superior
safety is on the side of employing men-practitioners.
THE answers inserted to each objection, all together,
constitute an essay to remove the prejudices, which have been so industriously,
and too successfully disseminated against the female practice of this art
; and
