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John Blunt, Man-Midwifery Dissected
The man-midwife caricature in the beginning of this section is frequently reprinted in works about early man-midwifery in England. It was the frontispiece of John Blunt's Man-Midwifery Dissected. Neither a physician nor a man-midwife himself, Blunt argued against males as assistants in normal births.Quote frompage VIII

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Questions to ask these pages:

1. According to Blunt, how many years before Martha Ballard started her diary in 1785 was the forceps design made public?

2. What did Blunt say persuaded women to employ man-midwives, even in normal labors?


Questions to ask the book:

1. According to Blunt, what were the dangers of employing man-midvives?
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2. How did Blunt propose to correct the man-midwife problem?
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MAN-MIDWIFERY
DISSECTED;

OR, THE

Obftetric Family-Instructor.

FOR THE USE OF


MARRIED COUPLES,

AND

SINGLE ADULTS OF BOTH SEXES.

CONTAINING

A Display of the Management of every Class of Labours by Men and Boy-midwives; also of their cunning, indecent, and cruel Practices. Instructions to Husbands how to counteract them. A Plan for the complete Instruction of Women who possess promising Talents, in order to supersede Male-practice. Various Arguments and Quotations, proving, that Men-midwifery is a personal, a domestic, and a national Evil.

IN FOURTEEN LETTERS
ADDRESSED TO
ALEX. HAMILTON, M.D.F.R.S. &c. Edinburgh.
OCCASIONED BY
CERTAIN DOCTRINES CONTAINED IN HIS LETTERS
TO DR. W. OSBORN.


BY JOHN BLUNT,
FORMERLY
A STUDENT UNDER DIFFERENT TEACHERS, BUT
NOT A PRACTIOTIONER OF THE ART.


Trust not yourselves, but the truth to know,
Make use of ev'ry friend and ev'ry foe.
POPE.

LONDON:
PUBLISHED FOR THE AUTHOR, BY S. W. FORES, NO. 3,
PICCADILLY; AND TO BE HAD OF ALL THE
BOOKSELLERS IN TOWN AND COUNTRY.

 





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