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to show that the substitution of the men, more especially of their iron
and steel-implements, is attended with greater danger, greater mischiefs,
than those which that substitution is pretended to prevent or redress.
THE second has more particularly for object to demonstrate
the insufficiency, danger, and actual destructiveness of instruments in
the art of midwifery. To this purpose I therefore pass all that is needful
of them in review, in the several cases, in which the antients and moderns
would persuade us they are necessary. I set myself to establish my exceptions
to them by uncontestable examples ; but above all, by the authority of reason
and experience. I take notice of some of the manifest contradictions to
be met with in almost all the authors, to one another. I have ventured to
subjoin some observations, taken from my own observations and practice,
in lieu of what I condemn, and to point out a method of operation, much
more plain, more tender, more secure, than the one by instruments. I support
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