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found Instruments requisite a above four
times in my life; so I am certain, where twenty Women are
delivered with Instruments which is not become a common Practice
that nineteen of them might be delivered without, if not the
twentieth, as will appear in my Observations. Wherefore it
is my intention (with God's assistance) to instruct my sisters
of the profession; that it may be in their power to deliver
all manner of Births, with more ease and safety, than has
hitherto been Practiced by Many of them, and without exposing
the lives of their young Women and Children to every boyish
pretender. For dissecting the dead, and being just and tender
to the living, are vastly different; for it must be supported
that there is a tender regard one Woman
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