al principles, which have happily guided me on all occasions, and from
which it is even easy to refute the pretentions and sistem of the instrumentarians,
in which I shall note here only three essential defects.
THE first, in that the origin of the men,
insinuating themselves into the practice of midwifery, has absolutely
no foundation in the plea of superior safety, and, consequently, can have
not right to exact so great a sacrifice as that of decency and modesty.
THE second, for that they were reduced
first to forge the phantom of incapacity in the women, and next the necessity
of murderous instruments, as some color for their mercenary intrusion.
And, in truth, the faculty of using those instruments is the sole tenure
of their usurped office.
THE third, their disagreement among themselves
about, which are the instruments to be preferred ; a doubt which, the practices
tried upon the lives and limbs of 
