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-<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DANGER AND IMMODESTY OF THE PRESENT TOO GENERAL CUSTOM OF UNNECESSARILY EMPLOYING MEN-MIDWIVES. ***</div>
-
-<p class="titlepage"><span class="smaller gesperrt">THE</span><br />
-<span class="smcap larger">DANGER and IMMODESTY</span><br />
-<span class="smaller gesperrt">OF</span><br />
-<i>The Present too general Custom of</i><br />
-<span class="larger">UNNECESSARILY EMPLOYING<br />
-<span class="gesperrt">MEN-MIDWIVES</span>.</span></p>
-
-<p class="titlepage"><span class="smaller gesperrt">BEING</span><br />
-The Letters which lately appeared under<br />
-the Signature of<br />
-<span class="gesperrt">A MAN-MIDWIFE</span>.</p>
-
-<p class="titlepage"><span class="smaller gesperrt">WITH AN</span><br />
-<span class="gesperrt larger">INTRODUCTION</span>,<br />
-<span class="smcap">A TREATISE on the MILK</span>,<br />
-<span class="smaller">AND AN</span><br />
-<span class="gesperrt larger">APPENDIX</span>.</p>
-
-<p class="titlepage"><span class="gesperrt">WITH CORRECTIONS</span><br />
-By the <span class="gesperrt">AUTHOR</span>.</p>
-
-<p class="center"><span class="gesperrt">LONDON</span>:<br />
-<span class="smaller">Printed for <span class="smcap">J. Wilkie</span>, No. 71, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard;<br />
-and <span class="smcap">F. Blyth</span>, John’s Coffee-House, Cornhill.<br />
-MDCCLXXII.</span></p>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_1"></a>[1]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak"><span class="smaller">AN</span><br />
-<span class="gesperrt">INTRODUCTION</span><br />
-<span class="smaller"><span class="smaller">AND</span><br />
-<span class="smcap">ADVICE to the LADIES</span>,<br />
-<span class="gesperrt">POINTING OUT</span><br />
-<span class="smaller"><i>The <span class="smcap">dangers</span> attending <span class="smcap">backening</span> their<br />
-<span class="smcap">milk</span> the first four or five Weeks after<br />
-Delivery.</i></span></span></h2>
-
-</div>
-
-<p class="center larger">To the <span class="gesperrt">PUBLIC</span>.</p>
-
-<p>I have very long been convinced of
-the many dangerous Consequences
-which attend the depraved Custom of employing
-Men-midwives unnecessarily—and
-have been for some Years intending
-from Month to Month to write my Ideas
-on that Subject, in order to combat the
-very destructive Practice, and endeavour
-to awaken the slumbering good Sense of the
-Nation. But when I reflected on the great
-Difficulty of conquering Prejudice—considered<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_2"></a>[2]</span>
-how generally the Opinion had been
-adopted that “Men were the most proper
-Attendants on the Labours of Women,”
-I confess the Task appeared too
-arduous—and I was discouraged.</p>
-
-<p>I knew, that <i>no</i> Arguments, <i>even if an
-Angel was to descend from Heaven to utter
-them</i>, could persuade the Ladies <i>to be satisfied</i>
-with Midwives of <i>their own</i> Sex,
-<i>after the fine Polish</i> had been <i>once</i>
-RUB’D OFF which <i>modesty ought</i>
-to have <i>work’d up</i> to such a <i>bright</i> Pitch of
-<i>high finish’d</i> Excellence, as <i>not</i> to have been
-capable of admitting the impure stain
-within the glossy smoothness of its beautiful
-enamel!—I knew, that, assisted by
-the greatest Part of the Faculty (whose <i><span class="smcap">interest</span>,
-as well as <span class="smcap">pleasure</span></i> would be
-at <span class="smcap">stake</span>) they would leave <i>no means</i> untried—they
-would call in <i>every fallacious</i>
-art to their aid, <i>to continue <span class="smcap">the deception</span></i>,
-by <i>ridiculing</i> Arguments which they
-<i>could not confute</i>—and that <i>un</i>married Ladies,
-through <i>an Opinion</i> of the <i>Virtue of
-their Friends</i>, and swayed, and <i>kept in
-Countenance</i>, by <i>the prevalent</i> Custom of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_3"></a>[3]</span>
-the Times, would naturally <i>fall into the
-Stream</i>, and <i>not</i> be undeceived until <i>too
-far hurried by the Current</i> to be <i>afterwards</i>
-able to recede.—On the other Hand, I
-likewise knew that our young Men <i>of Fashion</i>
-had <i>long ago</i> resolved <i>to bid Adieu <span class="smcap">to
-thinking</span></i>. Leaving <i>that troublesome</i> Employment
-<i>to others</i>, they were intent on
-pursuing the far nobler Gratifications <i>of
-Sense</i>—endeavouring to bury in a round
-of <i>trifling</i> Dissipations, <i>every</i> Sentiment
-meriting the Attention of <i>reasonable</i> Beings
-that an Attempt to work on <i>such</i> Minds
-would be Absurdity in the extreme,—for,
-that, even <i>if they were convinced</i> of the two
-uncontrovertable Truths I wish to establish,
-by being satisfied that Men were
-<i>not</i> so safe as Women, and that Men-midwives
-polluted the Minds of their Wives,
-and rendered them easy Preys to Seduction,
-yet these Sentiments would have had <i>no</i>
-Weight <i>with them</i>, because they married
-without Love, Religion, Principle—<i>the
-only</i> Ingredients capable of forming <i>national</i>
-Happiness. <i>Impure</i> in their <i>Souls, debauch’d</i>
-in their <i>Persons</i>, Libertinism opened<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_4"></a>[4]</span>
-<i>the only Avenue</i> which could present
-them with a Prospect of Enjoyments <i>adapted
-to their</i> Sensations—<i>their</i> Joys were
-independent of their Wive’s Society—their
-Healths consequently were only <i>politely</i>
-wish’d for—and they would of course
-readily <i>risk</i> their Wive’s Purity being contaminated,
-rather than <i>be disappointed</i> in
-the Pleasure of seducing the Wives <i>of their
-acquaintance</i>, through the <i>preparatory</i> Assistance
-of the <i>Men</i>-midwives. The Happiness
-of our gay young Men <i>not</i> being
-centered within the narrow Circle of
-Home, <i>the Virtue</i> of their Wives is not
-in the least essential, has no Weight, <i>when
-ballanced</i> with <i>the Advantages</i> they derive
-from the too <i>general</i> Prostitution of the
-Sex. They <i>extract Balm</i> from <i>the Vices</i> of
-<i>Other</i> Women, which has sovereign Efficacy
-<i>in healing</i> any Wounds—<i>alleviating</i> any
-smarts, which they may receive, or feel,
-from the infidelity of <i>their own</i> Wives—whom
-they never treated as their <i>rational
-Companions</i>, whose Affections they were
-desirous of fixing irremoveably,—but as
-<i>necessary</i> Beings to do the Honours of<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_5"></a>[5]</span>
-their Tables—furnish Heirs—and save
-their Estates from being encumbered with
-the Payment of the Fortunes of their
-younger Brothers and Sisters. The only
-View on <i>one</i> side, is <i>Money</i>—on the <i>other</i>,
-<i>Quality</i>—<i>each</i> having attain’d the <i>only</i> Object
-<i>they aim’d at in Marriage</i>,—each, without
-any fundamental Principle of Goodness,
-to restrain their Pursuits within the
-Bounds of Virtue, they throw off the
-Mask of Decency—and riot in Vice!—Our
-young Men think the Scriptures fit
-only to impose on Weakness. The Injunctions
-of the Gospel interfere with their
-Enjoyments—and having never believed
-it’s sacred Truths—or endeavoured to follow
-it’s amiable Precepts, they never experienced
-the serene Tranquillity arising
-from the delightful Possession of an approving
-Conscience. At the best, <i>forgetful</i>
-even of the Existence of a God—and
-laughing at the idle supposition of a
-future state, they give the Reins without
-Controul to all their Appetites and Passions—check’d
-by nothing but what <i>they<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_6"></a>[6]</span>
-term <span class="smcap">honour</span></i>. But <i><span class="smcap">their</span> Honour</i> is comprised,
-in—<i>punishing the Man with <span class="smcap">murder</span>
-who dares to doubt</i> their veracity, or
-fail in Respect to their Dignity—and in
-paying their Debts <i>to <span class="smcap">sharpers</span></i>, instead
-of rewarding the Industry of their Tradesmen,
-by giving them—<i>their own Property</i>.
-<i><span class="smcap">Their</span> Honour</i> does not restrain
-them from defiling the Beds <i>of their
-Friends</i>—<i><span class="smcap">breaking</span> Promises</i> to <i><span class="smcap">worthy</span>
-Dependants</i>—or <i>betraying</i> the Interests and
-Honour of their Country for <i>base Wages of
-Iniquity</i>, though committed with Confidence
-to their Charge, <i>yet sacrificed</i> without
-Remorse, for their <i>private</i> Emolument.
-<i><span class="smcap">Their</span> Honour</i> enforces <i>no single
-Virtue</i>!—<span class="smcap">away with such honour!</span></p>
-
-<p>I next consider’d the number of <i>well-disposed</i>
-Men, who <i>through Prejudice</i> might
-<i>neglect</i>; or through Indolence, or Weakness
-of Understanding, be blind to the
-Force of my Arguments, and of course
-remain unconvinced by them—and these
-Obstacles, united, appeared too formidable
-to be surmounted by any weak Effort<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_7"></a>[7]</span>
-I could make through the Channel of a News
-Paper. At last however I took Courage
-and submitted my Sentiments to the Consideration
-of the Public, in the Gazetteer
-of the 28th of March.</p>
-
-<p>I had not, at that time, any Intention
-of writing another Letter,—but deriving
-Hopes from the favourable Impression my
-first seem’d to have made on the Minds of
-the Considerate—and having heard weight
-laid on <i>the Men’s Knowledge of Anatomy</i> as
-a Reason why <i>they</i> should <i>be safer</i> than
-Women, I wrote the second Letter to remove
-<i>that specious</i>, but <i>mistaken</i> Idea—and
-having <i>known</i> some, and heard of <i>many</i>
-other young Men Midwives, who really
-<i>are ignorant</i> of that Knowledge of Anatomy
-which is <i>their only</i> Recommendation <i>to <span class="smcap">infatuated</span>
-Husbands</i>;—and a Man Midwife,
-under the Signature of “Old Chiron,”
-having endeavoured to abuse the
-World with the most scandalous misrepresentations,
-and <i>gross Fallacies</i>, my last
-Letter appeared to expose the Danger of
-employing raw young Men—or believing
-such <i>interested Deceivers</i>.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_8"></a>[8]</span></p>
-
-<p>I am quite indifferent about the Offence
-which my Letters have given <i>the Ladies of
-Fashion</i>, and their <i>darling</i> Doctors—<i>their
-“sweet Men.”</i> They are conscious my
-Letters convey only <i>a very faint</i> Sketch of
-their <i>immodest, obscene practices</i>. They are
-<i>too bad</i> to be <i>exactly</i> described without
-using Language very unfit for the Inspection
-of virtuous Women!—I place dreadful
-Rocks in their View, to warn them
-from a Course on which their Purity
-would be irretrievably wreck’d: and surely
-those Parents entertain <i>strange</i> Notions
-of <i>Virtue</i>, who carefully keep my Letters
-out of the way of their Daughters, through
-what <i>they imagine to be</i> “Delicacy!”—they
-would rather, in short, have them <i>polluted
-in future—past redemption</i>—than instructed
-by my friendly Admonitions, how
-to avoid the Path to Vice!—the modest,
-amiable, worthy, <i>sensible</i> Part of the Community,
-I am confident, will read my
-Pamphlet with Candour—approve of the
-Sentiments contain’d in it—and recommend
-it to the Perusal of others. I shall<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_9"></a>[9]</span>
-view the Censures, and Displeasure of <i>the
-vicious</i>, and the <i>dissipated</i>, as the highest
-Eulogiums;—as Praise—which will convey
-<i>the most genial warmth</i> to my Heart—and,
-I trust, afford me a pleasing Retrospect
-in my <i>latest</i> Hours!—</p>
-
-<p>My Letters having succeeded beyond
-my most sanguine Expectation, I am now
-encouraged to attack <i>another</i> prevailing
-Custom among the Fair—that of <i>not</i> giving
-suck to their Infants, at least during
-the first five or six weeks.</p>
-
-<p>I shall wave considering <i>the Propriety</i> of
-a Mother’s giving suck through a Sense of
-the <i>incumbent Duty</i> she <i>owes</i> her child.—Though
-the Custom of backening the
-Milk is <i>unnatural</i>, dangerous, and too often
-<i>fatal</i>, I shall lay no stress on the former,
-but rest it entirely on the latter—for
-in <i>such</i> an Age as the present, in which
-our fine Ladies have few Ideas of any Religion—are
-not capable of receiving Pleasure
-from <i>domestick</i> Employments—would
-infinitely rather <span class="smcap">converse</span> with <i>any Men</i>
-than their <i>Husbands</i>—leave their Children<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_10"></a>[10]</span>
-to be instructed, or <i>neglected</i> by Servants,
-and fly abroad, with eager Impatience <i>to
-game away</i> their Husbands Fortunes, and
-receive the <i>criminal</i> Addresses of <i>their profligate</i>
-Admirers, at the Assembly, the
-Masquerade, or more <i>commodious Apartments</i>
-of <i>the Coterie</i>—laughing at the Censures
-of <i>the few</i> who have still some
-Regard to Decorum—and despising the
-Belief of the perpetual Presence of a
-Being who is Witness to all their <i>secret
-vicious Deformities</i>—in <i>such</i> times it would
-be Folly to mention the Dangers they expose
-their Infants to, from diseased Milk,
-want of a tender Mother’s Care—or dream
-of asking them how they will answer to
-the Almighty for <i>not</i> having afforded them
-the Nourishment He kindly provided for
-their Support?—I shall therefore only
-shew the Absurdity and <i>danger</i> of this
-Custom, as far as it regards the Health
-of <i>the Mother</i>.</p>
-
-<p>And here I must endeavour to give my
-Readers some Idea of that part of the human
-Body which is concern’d in the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_11"></a>[11]</span>
-formation, and absorbtion of the Milk,
-in order for their understanding the
-Force of my arguments.</p>
-
-<p>Our Bodies are constantly, when in
-Health, receiving Repairs in all their
-Parts, from millions of the smallest,
-most minute Arteries. Every Solid, and
-every Juice, is form’d out of, and secreted
-from, Blood. Those noxious
-Parts of the Blood which are not proper
-for these different, <i>opposite</i> Uses, are thrown
-off by insensible Perspiration. When,
-through various Causes, that Perspiration
-is obstructed, the acrid Matter which
-ought to have gone off, is absorb’d by the
-lymphatick Vessels, and returns into the
-Blood—brings on Fevers, Gout, Rheumatism,
-&amp;c. &amp;c.</p>
-
-<p>The Lymphaticks, are numberless Vessels,
-which pass through spungy Glands.
-These fine Tubes have a vast number of
-Valves, which prevent the Lymph, (or
-Liquor) which runs through them from
-going <i>a contrary</i> Direction from that intended<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_12"></a>[12]</span>
-for it. These fine Vessels are dispersed
-over every Part of our Bodies. The
-Point of a needle could not be applied to a
-Spot, under the Skin, where the Mouth of a
-lymphatic Vessel did not open to imbibe
-whatever is put in contact with it. These
-minute Branches run into other Branches,
-so form larger Vessels, till at last they all
-unite in a general Reservoir, where the
-Lymph which they contained, mixes with
-the Chyle, (the fine Part of our Food,
-which is fit to be converted into Blood)
-conducted there by the Lacteals, (the
-Lacteals resemble the Lymphaticks—they
-open into the Stomach, and Bowels—they
-imbibe nothing but from <i>our Food</i>)
-the Chyle, and Lymph, thus mix’d, run
-up within the trunk of a large Vessel called
-the thoracic Duct, on the inside of the
-back Bone, which is incessantly emptying
-it’s Liquor into a Vein under the left
-Collar Bone, where it mixes with the
-Blood, is immediately convey’d into the
-vena Cava, which conducts it, with the
-returning Blood from the rest of the Body,
-(Lungs excepted) into the right Auricle<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_13"></a>[13]</span>
-of the Heart—it thence is drove by the
-contraction of the Auricle, into the right
-Ventricle of the Heart—by it’s contraction,
-into the Pulmonary Artery—from
-thence through the whole Lungs, where
-the Blood receives a Change from being
-impregnated with something received from
-the Air every Inspiration. The Blood
-thus changed, is collected from the
-Lungs into the Pulmonary Veins, and
-conducted into the left Auricle of the
-Heart; which drives it into the left Ventricle;
-which forces it into a great Artery,
-the Aorta—which rushes it over every
-other Part of the Body.</p>
-
-<p>The lymphatic Vessels prevent our
-Blood depending <i>solely</i> on our Food for
-supply, and by means of them we can
-subsist some time merely on the Produce
-of our own Bodies. All these lymphatic
-Vessels are closely accompanied by Arteries—whose
-Pulsations assist the motion of the
-Lymph to it’s Reservoir:⸺Consequently
-the quicker and stronger they beat, the
-faster the Lymph is hurried into the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_14"></a>[14]</span>
-Blood. Hence the Reason why Fevers
-occasion so speedy a wasting of the Flesh—hence
-Hectics bring on Consumptions—hence
-People in Fevers can subsist long
-with little Food,—The lymphaticks then
-supplying the Blood too abundantly from
-our own Juices.</p>
-
-<p>The Author of Nature has ordered an
-extraordinary Quantity of Blood to be prepared
-for the Child’s Food. Arteries run
-into the Glands of the Breasts, and in
-passing through them, the Blood, by a
-most wonderful Change, is converted into
-Milk!⸺by a Change, which nothing
-but Custom prevents our viewing as a
-Miracle!</p>
-
-<p>The admired Toast of the Town cannot
-endure the Trouble of nursing. It
-would confine her too much at home—it
-has too vulgar an appearance—it is not
-warranted by <i>the Example</i> of the first
-Circle—the Milk must <i>therefore</i> be backen’d.—It
-is denied Liberty to discharge
-itself by the Out-lett Providence <i>intended<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_15"></a>[15]</span>
-for it</i>—the Child, whose Constitution <i>it
-was calculated for</i>, is not suffered to have
-it’s Due. What becomes of the Milk?</p>
-
-<p>It is absorb’d by the lymphatic Vessels,
-<i>contrary</i> to the <i>original</i> Intention of Nature—and
-convey’d back into the Blood,
-in the manner I have before described.—What
-is the Consequence?—The blood
-Vessels become <i>not only highly over-charged</i>
-with Blood, but that Blood is thus rendered
-of an improper Consistence. A Fever
-ensues!—This Fever comes on when
-the woman is <i>ill able to bear</i> it’s Shock!—<i>How
-often</i> is this Fever <i>fatal</i>!</p>
-
-<p>The most fortunate Circumstance that
-can happen, is, when the Milk finds
-<i><span class="smcap">another</span> out-lett</i>. Probably <i>otherwise</i>
-there may be a formation of Matter
-somewhere—there is danger <i>that</i> Matter
-may fly to some capital Part.</p>
-
-<p>If the Woman is young, healthy, strong,
-it is most probable the Milk will <i>not</i> be absorb’d<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_16"></a>[16]</span>
-<i>quick enough</i>. The Blood will <i>furnish</i>
-Milk <i>faster</i> than the lymphatick Vessels
-can imbibe it, and convey it back
-again. The Breasts are painfully distended—they
-inflame.</p>
-
-<p><i>When too late</i>—it is then resolved they
-shall be suck’d.</p>
-
-<p>During the time of Pregnancy a small
-quantity of Milk is lodged in the Milk
-Vessels of the Breasts. This Milk, when
-the nine Months are expired, is thick—clogs
-the Vessels. If the Woman never
-gave suck, the Pores through which the
-Milk ought to issue to the Child, are not
-open enough—they require therefore <i>to
-be clear’d</i>, by the <i>old</i> Milk being suck’d
-off, <i>the very day of the Delivery</i>, and to
-empty the Milk Vessels of what must
-otherwise clog them. Some woman ought
-to suck this off therefore <i>as soon as possible</i>.
-If the Child is put to the Breast <i>in
-Twelve, or Sixteen Hours</i> after it’s Birth,
-it will suck <i>greedily</i>—if delay’d three or<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17a"></a>[17*]</span>
-four Days, it is twenty to one the Child
-will not attempt it for a long time.</p>
-
-<p>When therefore <i>the Necessity</i> of the
-Case has overcome every Resolution
-form’d for the Woman’s <i>not</i> giving suck,
-and her Child is put to her Breast, it is
-in vain!—the Child will not touch the
-Breast!—<i>other</i> Children—or women attempt
-to ease the poor Woman of her
-Load of Milk—this Resource likewise
-fails! the thick Milk has clog’d the Vessels—the
-N-pp-es, owing to the hard
-Distension of the Breasts, has shrunk into
-them—and, besides, their Pores have
-never been open’d—never been clear’d—no
-endeavours avail! the distress’d Woman,
-after having been sadly fatigued,
-exhausted, finds herself disappointed of
-Relief!—dreadful Symptoms soon appear!
-she <i>too probably</i> falls a sacrifice to a
-ridiculous—senseless—not to say a sinful
-deviation <i>from the Path of Nature</i>!—how
-many fine young Women have lately<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18a"></a>[18*]</span>
-died—and go off every Year, from this
-Cause!</p>
-
-<p>But “<i>particular</i> Women have not Constitutions
-strong enough to bear giving
-suck. Certainly there are some Women
-whom it might hurt.” Granted. Let
-such particular Women give suck <i>only</i> for
-the first <i>four</i>, <i>five</i> or <i>six Weeks</i>. If those
-Women <i>then</i> really find themselves too delicate
-for the <i>longer</i> continuance of such a
-Drain, they then <i>may safely</i> by degrees
-leave off giving suck—they have sufficiently
-recover’d Strength to venture
-throwing the Milk gently back into the
-Blood. The most delicately form’d Woman
-existing should <i>not</i> dream of suffering
-a single Drop of the Milk which Nature
-<i>intended for Evacuation</i>, to return into
-the Blood, untill the Constitution is re-established—and
-enabled to bear discharging
-itself of the Superfluities, without
-encountering the Dangers which <i>demonstrably</i>
-attend a contrary Practice. If
-a Woman is too delicate to bear <i>continuing
-to suckle</i> her Infant, surely she is <i>too delicate</i><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19a"></a>[19*]</span>
-to endure the flying in the Face of
-Nature, and <i>risking</i> the Fever—if she is
-healthy and strong, the more incumbent
-her duty is, to nourish her Child—her
-danger too equal. In <i>every</i> View, the salutary
-Consequences attending Mothers
-discharging their Duty to their Children
-in this point, are so obvious, so glaring,
-that <i>to me</i> it is matter of doubt whether
-those who fail in it are most to be condemn’d
-and despised for <i>their want of natural
-Affection</i>—or pitied and ridiculed <i>for
-their Folly</i>.</p>
-
-<p>These are my Ideas on this interesting
-Subject. Let those Women who <i>obstinately</i>
-persevere in a Resolution to deny
-their Infants their natural Food—(and in
-whose Judgements my Arguments have
-appear’d deficient in Weight) stand the
-Trial, and risk the Consequence. I most
-sincerely hope the Success may answer
-their Wishes!</p>
-
-<p>I now refer my Readers to the following
-Letters. I can assert, <i>with conscious<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20a"></a>[20*]</span>
-Truth</i> that my Sentiments on the <i>preceding</i>,
-and <i>following</i> Subjects, have been the
-offspring of an Heart warm’d by a Love
-for my fellow-Creatures—ever most ardently
-solicitous for their Welfare and
-Happiness, here and hereafter.</p>
-
-<p>I cannot expect <i>to reclaim</i> any Woman
-who has <i>already used</i> a <i>Man</i>, for Reasons
-I gave at the beginning of this Introduction,
-and because, by quitting him, she
-would <i>tacitly</i> acknowledge the Truth of
-my Assertions—and because none but
-those possess’d of the most exalted Qualities
-of the Head and Heart, can have
-<i>greatness</i> enough <i>to confess</i> they have been
-in an Error of <i>such</i> a Nature.</p>
-
-<p>I am not without hopes however, of
-<i>opening the Eyes</i> of <i>sensible</i> Men—and unmarried
-Women, who are <i>at present</i> modest,
-and <i>wish</i> to <i>remain so</i>—and preventing
-the <i>former from advising</i>, and the <i>latter
-from falling into</i> the scandalous Custom
-of employing <i>Men</i>-Midwifes, which <i>I
-know</i> to be <i><span class="smcap">erroneous</span> as to it’s <span class="smcap">pretended<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_21a"></a>[21*]</span>
-safety</span></i>—<i><span class="smcap">fatally</span> dangerous</i> to the <span class="smcap">virtue</span>—and
-<i><span class="smcap">certainly</span> destructive</i> of the
-<span class="smcap">modesty</span><a id="FNanchor_1" href="#Footnote_1" class="fnanchor">[1]</a> of my fair Countrywomen.—They
-may believe me when I assure
-them that <span class="smcap">no purity</span> can withstand the
-<i>rude</i> Shock of <i>such</i> Intrusions—<i>the whitest</i>
-Ermine is <i>most</i> liable to have it’s Beauties
-sullied!</p>
-
-<p>If I should be happy enough to hear
-in a few Years that I have given the least
-Check to this most abandon’d of <i>vicious</i>
-Practices, the Consciousness of having
-done a most signal Service to the Community,
-will implant genuine Pleasure—substantial
-Satisfaction in the Breast of</p>
-
-<p class="center">the Public’s<br />
-most obedient<br />
-humble Servant,</p>
-
-<p class="right"><span class="smcap">The Author</span>.</p>
-
-<div class="footnotes">
-<div class="footnote">
-<p><a id="Footnote_1" href="#FNanchor_1" class="label">[1]</a> I make a great Distinction <i>between Modesty</i>,
-and <i>Virtue</i>. A Woman <i>may</i> be <i>virtuous</i>, <i>without</i>
-being <i>Modest</i>—but it is <i>impossible</i> to be <i>modest</i>, without
-being <i>virtuous</i>. Modesty is <i>the guard</i> of Virtue—but
-it <i>is possible</i> a <i>cold</i> Constitution <i>may</i> preserve
-<i>Virtue</i>, even <i>after</i> every Trace of <i>Modesty</i> has been
-obliterated.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_17"></a>[17]</span></p>
-
-<h1><span class="smaller">THE</span><br />
-Danger and Immodesty, <i>&amp;c.</i></h1>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="LETTER_I">LETTER I.</h2>
-
-</div>
-
-<p>In times, when every winter brings
-scenes of prostitution from the privacy of
-darkness into the public light of day; when
-our ladies of quality, and women of fashion,
-instead of being as remarkable for their
-virtue, as for their beauty, openly cast
-aside every sense of shame, and barefacedly
-encourage the addresses of men, who,
-avowedly, can have no intention but to
-involve them in guilt; it is the duty of
-every honest man to endeavour to trace the
-evil <i>to its source</i>, in order that, by pointing
-out <i>the foul spring</i> which corrupts the
-stream, <i>the fountain may be cleared</i>, and
-the contagion which rages from it, lessened,
-if not entirely removed.</p>
-
-<p>Boarding schools are, beyond doubt, seminaries,
-where the minds of girls are<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_18"></a>[18]</span>
-early polluted. Let the mistress of the
-school be ever so virtuous, prudent, and attentive,
-the vicious girls (and some such there
-always must be among a number) will find
-sufficient opportunities to taint the tender
-minds of unsuspecting innocence. Nothing
-can be more destructive than bad example;
-and, unfortunately, the human
-mind is too ready to copy those which are
-vicious—and <i>the vicious</i> are more importunate
-and solicitous <i>to corrupt</i>, than <i>the virtuous</i>
-are to gain proselytes to goodness.</p>
-
-<p>Though I believe <i>the first seeds of vice</i>
-are imbibed at a boarding school, yet
-I <i>by no means</i> look on that education as the
-great cause of these frequent adulteries. If
-principles of virtue have been inculcated in
-infancy, they may yet, with proper care,
-bud out afresh under good culture—and
-flourish under the influence of good advice,
-when those noxious weeds are choaked up,
-which were planted by bad examples, but
-which may wither on the cause being removed.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_19"></a>[19]</span></p>
-
-<p><i>It is to the almost universal custom of <span class="smcap">employing
-Men-midwives</span>, that I attribute
-the frequent <span class="smcap">adulteries</span> which disgrace
-our country.</i></p>
-
-<p><i>Ignorance</i> has spread this <i>shameless</i> custom.
-Ignorance leads people to suppose
-men <i>safer</i> than women—Ignorance of <i>what</i>
-the <i>Men</i>-midwives <i>do</i>, leads modest women
-<i>at first</i> to submit to employ men; and
-<i>it is ignorance</i> which leads husbands [who
-love their wives] to recommend, nay even
-sometimes force them on their wives.
-They know not what stripes they are
-preparing for themselves—they know
-not that they are removing the corner stone
-on which the virtue of their wives
-is founded—and all this on <i>a mistaken</i>
-principle—<i>the idea that men are
-safest</i>.</p>
-
-<p>The Almighty, through kindness to his
-creatures, has so ordered the labours of
-women, that even the honest part of the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_20"></a>[20]</span>
-Men-midwife tribe confess, that, in thirty
-years practice, a person might probably
-never meet <i>with a single case</i> where a good
-woman might not have done the business.
-This confession was made to me by an eminent
-man-midwife, after a practice of
-thirty-six years. How else would the
-world have been peopled? The men have
-<i>but lately</i> come into fashion. In praise of
-<i>Scotland</i> and <i>Ireland</i> be it spoken, <i>the women
-of those countries are still too modest to
-employ them</i>. What is the consequence?
-<i>Adulteries</i> happen <i>very seldom in those countries</i>;
-and every farm-house swarms with
-strong, healthy, <i>well-limbed</i> children. If
-Men-midwives were requisite to bring children
-into the world, what would become
-of the wilds of America—the plains of
-Africa? Even the <i>Hottentot women</i> are too
-modest to employ men—they leave that
-abandoned custom <i>to our English ladies</i>—yet
-they are so fruitful they furnish slaves
-to the globe. It is a notorious fact, that
-more children have been lost since women
-were so scandalously indecent as to employ<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_21"></a>[21]</span>
-men, than for ages before that practice became
-so general. Women have <i>a tenderness
-of feeling for their own sex</i> in labour,
-which <i>it is impossible men can ever equal
-them in</i>. By <i>having felt</i> the pains, and
-the anxieties attending child-birth, they
-know how to sympathize in a woman’s
-sufferings. <i>Their</i> feelings, therefore, are
-<i>natural</i>. They lead them to be patient—they
-prompt them <i>to allow nature to do her
-own</i> peculiar work. They never dream of
-having recourse to force—the <i>barbarous,
-bloody crotchet</i> never stained <i>their</i> hands
-with <i>murder</i>. There <i>never really</i> can be
-occasion for a male operator, but when a
-deed must be done which my soul shudders
-at the idea of, and which I shall not
-mention—but thanks to God, such instances
-do not occur in a century!—To my
-knowledge, a lady was twice delivered in
-different parts of the country of England,
-by common women-midwives, and both
-those cases were <i>as unnatural</i> and difficult
-as it is well possible to imagine—she and
-the children did well—if she had employed<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_22"></a>[22]</span>
-men, it is more than probable, <i>the children,
-at least</i>, would have expired under
-the crotchet—or been maimed by the forceps!</p>
-
-<p>And how should this be otherwise! a
-long <i>un-impassioned</i> practice, <i>early</i> commenced,
-and <i>calmly</i> pursued, is absolutely
-requisite to give men <i>by art</i>, what women
-attain <i>by nature</i>.—Dr. Hunter, very wisely,
-very justly has said, that “Labour is nature’s
-work.”—Nature <i>ought to be suffered</i>
-nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of
-a thousand, <i>to do her own work</i>. All the
-knowledge <i>young</i> men can possibly obtain,
-must be from <i>dead</i> bodies—for is it in common
-sense to suppose, that a young lad
-can explore the secret recesses of Venus, so
-as to be <i>physically</i> well acquainted with
-those parts in <i>living</i> females? No—fires
-must quickly be raised, which unavoidably
-will confuse all his discerning <i>reasoning</i>
-faculties—and <i><span class="smcap">art</span> must instantly be lost in
-<span class="smcap">nature</span></i>. Dr. Hunter, indeed, and one
-or two men besides, <i>may perhaps</i>, by the<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_23"></a>[23]</span>
-help of <i>cold</i> constitutions, and dint of very
-long practice, do their business <i>nearly as
-well</i> as women—by leaving all <i>to nature</i>—but,
-if my life and fortune here, and salvation
-hereafter, depended on the life
-of any pregnant woman, and that of her
-infant, I would stake all I held valuable on
-her being attended by any old woman
-midwife in England, in preference to any
-man in the world. Whoever reads Nihel’s
-Midwifery, will be satisfied of this truth,
-that <i>women are infinitely safer than men</i>.</p>
-
-<p>Who can wonder at the profligacy of
-the times, when it is known that even
-women of character soon become so callous
-to the bashfulness which ought to
-characterize their sex (from being habituated
-to the familiarities of their Men-midwives)
-that they will not scruple informing
-a male visitor, without even blushing,
-“I was not very well for some days in the
-country—so I came to town on purpose to
-be satisfied by Dr. ⸺ that I was in
-a good way—<i>the dear man</i> has told me that<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_24"></a>[24]</span>
-<i>the child lies right</i>—and I am perfectly easy.”
-Monstrous! that a lady can pretend to any
-degree of modesty, and yet, <i>not content</i>
-with having <i>a strange</i> man attending her
-<i>for hours</i> when in labour (most of that time
-intimately acquainted with <i>every</i> part) she
-can, without any compunction, send for
-a man, and admit him without reserve
-<i>to the most unbounded</i> liberties, at a
-time too, when she is <i>as able</i> to walk, and
-<i>do every other act</i> of life, as if she was not
-pregnant! Pray let me ask her ladyship,
-<i>how</i> did “<i>The dear man</i>,”—“<i>sweet Dr.
-⸺</i>,” <i>find out</i> how the child lay?—By
-means <i>sufficient to taint the purity</i>, and <i>fully
-the chastity</i>, of any woman breathing!—I
-will boldly affirm, that, whoever admits
-a man to those <i>licentious</i> freedoms, cannot
-pretend to answer for what <i>may</i> be the consequences.
-If <i>the last</i> circumstance does
-not take place, it must be owing, either to
-an extraordinary insensibility in the man,
-or to the woman’s not suiting his taste,
-having such choice of beauties to visit. Suppose,
-for argument’s sake, that the fictitious<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_25"></a>[25]</span>
-Goddess of Chastity, Diana herself, was
-on earth, and employed me to satisfy
-her doubts, during the months of pregnancy
-prior to labour—and her mind
-of course, at first, free from the smallest
-tincture of guilty ideas—yet, if I chose it,
-I could <i>so bewilder her reason</i>, that she
-should <i>lose sight of every principle of virtue</i>—and
-not <i>be able</i> to refuse me whatever I
-chose to desire.—When a man is in free
-possession of the Citadel, and all the out-works
-surrendered at discretion, it is then
-too late to attempt guarding the town from
-plunder.</p>
-
-<p>But supposing these advantages are not
-always taken (<i>which I dare say they are
-not</i>) it cannot be denied <i>with truth</i> these
-visitations from Men-midwives, remove in
-a great measure, the horror of those intrusions
-on the advanced posts of virtue,
-which are its greatest safeguards—and serve
-<i>to prepare the way</i> for the addresses of gay
-young men, who make it their business<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_26"></a>[26]</span>
-to seduce married women into the paths of
-infamy.</p>
-
-<p>If any lady, desirous of exculpating herself
-from my censure, pleads that “she
-never admits a Man-midwife <i>to familiarities</i>
-but when <i>in actual labour</i>”—I answer,
-that, even <i>in actual</i> labour—<i>a woman has
-many intervals of ease</i>, for many minutes
-together quite free from pain—<i>in those intervals</i>,
-her mind <i>cannot</i> maintain <i>its spotless
-whiteness</i>—<i>in those</i> intervals she cannot
-but <i>be conscious</i>, that the <i><span class="smcap">doctor</span> is infringing
-on the <span class="smcap">husband</span></i>.</p>
-
-<p>But I believe there are very few women
-who confine the Doctor’s familiarities to
-the times of real labour. Lady ⸺, Mrs.
-⸺, acquiesce in whatever he thinks
-right during all the months of pregnancy—and
-must he not be <i><span class="smcap">more</span> than man</i>, or
-<span class="smcap">less than man</span>, who, <i>roving luxuriously</i>
-through all the <i>hidden</i> charms of beauty,
-can help being inflamed by passion?—and,<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_27"></a>[27]</span>
-<i>if inflamed by passion</i>, he may proceed <span class="smcap">on
-certainties</span> ... he has an <i><span class="smcap">unerring</span>
-tell-tale under his inspection</i>, which gives
-him <i>an <span class="smcap">infallible</span> cue, when he may
-safely</i> throw aside the mask, fearless of any
-repulse.</p>
-
-<p>Shew some sense of modesty, ye
-Duchesses, Countesses, &amp;c. &amp;c. and those
-inferior women, whom <i>ye have debauched</i>
-by your bad examples, will again imitate
-ye, in forsaking these Scandalous practices.
-Blush, ye women of fashion, to own that
-any man, besides your husbands, <i>is admitted
-to liberties with your persons</i>. No longer
-talk of “<i>dear</i> Doctor Hunter,” “<i>angelic</i>
-Doctor—” “<i>enchanting</i> Doctor—.” ...
-For my own part, if I was a married man,
-I declare it would be <i>a matter of the utmost
-indifference</i> to me, whether my wife
-had spent the night <i>in a bagnio</i>—or an
-hour of the forenoon locked up with a
-man-midwife in her dressing room.—Let<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_28"></a>[28]</span>
-this <i>shameless</i> custom be abolished, and
-then virtue will fly back again to our metropolis,
-with all her train of <i>genuine self-approving
-pleasures</i>—and England be <i>once
-more</i> as much famed for the chastity, as
-for the beauty of its women.</p>
-
-<p>Adieu, Mr. Printer—you have received
-this letter from a sincere admirer of female
-modesty: Without it “beauty
-<i>ceases being lovely</i>, or wit being engaging.”
-Whoever possesses it cannot be enough
-esteemed and regarded—whoever is deficient
-in it cannot be sufficiently despised
-and slighted. Ye <i>English</i> fair, <i>it ought</i> to
-be your characteristic! <i>but while your fathers,
-husbands, and brothers are unprincipled,
-corrupted senators</i>—you think you
-have a right to deviate from <i>your point of
-honour</i>, since <i>they shew you the example in
-their’s</i>.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_29"></a>[29]</span></p>
-
-<p>To conclude—<i>true modesty is incompatible
-with the idea of employing</i></p>
-
-<p class="right">A MAN MIDWIFE<a id="FNanchor_2" href="#Footnote_2" class="fnanchor">[2]</a>.</p>
-
-<div class="footnotes">
-<div class="footnote">
-<p><a id="Footnote_2" href="#FNanchor_2" class="label">[2]</a> Except when those <i>very rare instances</i> occur,
-which do not happen once in two thousand labours.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_30"></a>[30]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="LETTER_II">LETTER II.</h2>
-
-</div>
-
-<p>The favourable reception my last letter
-met with from the public, leads
-me to hope our married men will seriously
-reflect on the dangers which attend the
-employing Men-midwives to attend their
-wives, except in cases where there is the
-most urgent necessity for the interference
-of art. I flatter myself it will not be difficult
-to convince <i>sensible</i>, <i>modest</i> women
-of two undeniable truths, which nothing
-but prejudice, or vice, can render them
-blind to the force of:—First, that Men-midwives
-are not so safe as women;—and
-secondly, that it is absolutely impossible to
-permit men to take the unbounded freedoms
-which Men-midwives <i>falsely pretend are
-necessary</i>, without throwing themselves entirely
-at their mercy, and, at all events,
-being polluted by their needless invasion.</p>
-
-<p>The Men-midwives and their friends, have
-wisely chose to be silent. They are conscious
-my assertions cannot be denied with any<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_31"></a>[31]</span>
-shadow of truth, they therefore prudently
-have declined the combat. If they had attempted
-controverting my arguments, they
-must have discovered the sandy foundations
-on which they have established the idea of
-<i>their being the proper</i> attendants on the labours
-of women. Objections which they
-cannot remove,—dangers which they cannot
-dissipate,—and impurities which no
-varnish can conceal, they wish to avoid
-mentioning; fearful lest an attempt to answer
-my letter, should display to the world
-the weakness and insufficiency of their defence,
-and stimulate abler pens than mine
-to continue the subject too long for their
-interest. They vainly imagine my letter
-will soon be forgotten, and be consigned
-to oblivion amongst waste paper. But
-they are mistaken,—this letter shall accompany
-it annually to the press, to remind
-my fair countrywomen of the inestimable
-value of chastity,—and to warn
-them from those practices which pave the
-way to the most flagrant breach of it;—and
-I am not without hope that I shall be<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_32"></a>[32]</span>
-joined by the friends of virtue, and assisted
-in the arduous talk I have undertaken.
-What undertaking can be more difficult to
-succeed in, than an endeavour to reform
-the manners of a vicious age? Yet, encouraged
-by the consciousness of the rectitude
-of my intentions, and of the sincerity
-of my wishes to repair the foundations
-of matrimonial happiness, I freely offer
-my sentiments to the world,—let the candid
-weigh them in the scale of common-sense,—and
-either adopt, or disregard them,
-as they appear to tend to the benefit, or
-prejudice of mankind. The consequence
-of their decision will principally affect
-themselves,—it will not reach to me.</p>
-
-<p>The Men-midwives are sensible, that,
-when they urge their knowledge in anatomy
-as a reason for their being safer than
-women, they mean to take advantage of
-<i>the ignorance</i> of mankind. Where <i>very
-rare</i>, <i>particular</i> circumstances occur, undoubtedly
-the knowledge of anatomy becomes
-then absolutely necessary to direct<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_33"></a>[33]</span>
-the operator in the means requisite to save
-the woman’s life. In that distressed, unhappy,
-deplorable situation, no modesty
-can possibly be violated. The poor afflicted
-woman, is, <i>if sensible</i>, so taken up
-with anxious thoughts, and torturing
-pains, that she is <i>not conscious</i> of the transaction—and
-the Royal Exchange, when
-crouded, might be spectators, without attracting
-her attention, or interrupting her
-fears. It is quite different in <i>a very large
-majority</i> of labours. The woman has
-many intervals of ease,—she does not apprehend
-there is any peculiar danger in
-her case:—her mind, while free from
-pain, is at liberty calmly to attend to
-whatever is done. There is not above one
-labour in a thousand where there is any
-occasion for the knowledge of anatomy.
-I insist that <i>except in those very extraordinary
-cases</i>, a knowledge of anatomy leads Men-midwives
-frequently to do great mischief.
-<i>It makes them impatient.</i> They <i>know how</i>
-to bring on the labour pains,—they <i>know
-how to force the birth</i>. From <i>this <span class="smcap">destructive<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_34"></a>[34]</span>
-knowledge</span></i>, numbers of children
-are demolished,—numbers of women
-are thrown into fevers by <i>lacerations</i> and
-<i>inflammations</i>, which might have the worst
-consequences, and which never would
-have happened <i>if the knowledge of anatomy</i>
-had not <i>tempted men</i> to have recourse <i>to
-<span class="smcap">art</span> within the proper boundaries of <span class="smcap">nature’s</span>
-empire</i>. For this reason, if I was
-a married man, I would not employ <i>even
-a woman</i> who had been bred under a Man-midwife.
-Her <i>knowing the parts <span class="smcap">anatomically</span></i>,
-and <i>understanding the <span class="smcap">use</span> of
-<span class="smcap">instruments</span></i>, and pursuing the <i>teizing</i>,
-<i>fiddling</i> customs of the men who had instructed
-her, instead of recommending her
-to me, would be a sufficient cause to prevent
-my employing her.</p>
-
-<p><i><span class="smcap">The only safe knowledge</span> for a midwife
-to possess</i>, is, <i>that which is taught by
-<span class="smcap">experience</span></i>. Whenever it <i>ceases</i> being
-possible for nature, with such assistance,
-to do her work, <i>then</i>, and <i>then only</i>, art
-ought to be called in with instruments to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_35"></a>[35]</span>
-aid.—Yet our young women are not ashamed
-<i>premeditately to resolve</i> on employing
-men, though there are such a multitude
-of chances <i>against</i> the supposition of a dead
-child—or that there will be occasion for
-the destruction of her infant to save her
-own life. It is for this wanton use of men,
-that I wish I had abilities to expose their
-want of modesty in colours striking enough
-to hold out our women to the universal ridicule
-of the world, and draw down on
-them the contempt and indignation of the
-virtuous.</p>
-
-<p>Is it not laughable to hear of a <i>modest</i>
-woman sending for <i>a man</i> to inform her
-<i>whether or not she is with child</i>, and <i>how
-far gone</i>?—Heavens! <i>a little patience</i>
-would soon have cleared up that matter,
-and the most skilful man may be mistaken,
-<i>even allowing the supposition</i> (which is <i><span class="smcap">not</span>
-probable</i>) <span class="smcap">that he may be quite cool</span>,
-and <i>experience <span class="smcap">no fluttering</span> sensations
-to confuse his mind during <span class="smcap">the serious</span> investigation</i>.
-Why cannot the lady <i>allow a<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_36"></a>[36]</span>
-few months</i> to elapse? Her doubts would
-then have been removed, without any <i>male</i>
-intrusions, <i>without <span class="smcap">scandalous violations</span>
-of <span class="smcap">modesty</span></i>—without, what I
-term, <span class="smcap">shameful pollutions of her
-person</span>.</p>
-
-<p>What must Men-midwives think of those
-ladies, who send for them to be inspected
-on such trifling occasions? <i>What can they
-avoid thinking?</i> Must they not conclude,
-that those ladies are restrained from adultery
-<i><span class="smcap">not</span> by any principle</i> of virtue, but by
-a dread of the consequences; and, since
-they can admit no man to familiarities but
-their Man-midwife (who is the <i>priviledged
-father confessor of England</i>) without losing
-their reputations, they are resolved to be
-<i>as immodest</i>, without losing their characters,
-as the depraved, profligate custom of the
-world can authorize them? Men-midwives
-entertain each other with curious recitals
-of their adventures among the fair:—Surely
-those women cannot justly be pitied, who
-thus by their folly, or vice, furnish subjects<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_37"></a>[37]</span>
-<i>first</i> for their sensual <i>ideas</i>, and <i>afterwards</i>
-for their mirth.</p>
-
-<p>I have been a good deal amused by hearing
-my letter commented on in different
-companies, where the author was far from
-being suspected to be present. The Men-midwives,
-and the ladies who receive
-pleasure from employing them, never can
-forgive me for having exposed their conduct.
-All they can however say against
-me, is, that I am “<i>very indelicate</i>;”—that
-“<i>it is a shame such papers should appear</i>.”—Let
-them be informed, Mr. Printer,
-that <span class="smcap">if I am “indelicate,”</span> it is
-<i>because <span class="smcap">they are immodest</span></i>. Where
-<i>the bone</i> is <i>corrupted</i>, the flesh must be removed,
-and <i>the foul parts laid bare</i>, in order
-to be <i>scraped</i>, and <i>purified</i>—<i>desperate
-disorders require desperate remedies</i>. <i>The
-“shame” does not consist <span class="smcap">in what I write</span>
-but <span class="smcap">in what they do</span></i>.—<i>Let them <span class="smcap">quit
-their practice</span>, I will most readily throw
-aside my pen.</i></p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_38"></a>[38]</span></p>
-
-<p>I should be sorry to entertain so bad an
-opinion of the generality of my fair countrywomen,
-as to suppose them hardened
-by the depraved custom of the times, beyond
-a possibility of being roused to a sense
-of danger for themselves and infants, and
-to a sense of virtue. Doctor Hunter is,
-beyond dispute, <i>the best Man</i>-midwife in
-the world—yet, let the advocates for the
-<i>indiscriminate</i> use of men lay their hands on
-their hearts, and answer me ingenuously
-this question—Suppose any <i>three</i> of the
-<i>best</i> Midwives in London had lost <i>in their
-lives, the same number</i> of women of fashion
-<i>Doctor Hunter</i> has lost <i>within these two or
-three years</i>,<a id="FNanchor_3" href="#Footnote_3" class="fnanchor">[3]</a> would they not have exclaimed<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_39"></a>[39]</span>
-loudly, and <i>taken advantage</i> of those
-deaths <i>to prove the danger of employing women</i>?
-All England would have rung of
-their mismanagement—and the women
-would have been ruined!—There are women
-in London who have laid several thousands,
-and yet never lost either a mother
-or an infant.</p>
-
-<p>Though the abandoned custom exculpates
-ladies in the estimation of a dissipated
-world, yet I recommend to their confederation
-<i>how their thoughts, during the visits</i>
-of Men-midwives, will stand the test of the
-penetrating eye of their Creator.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_40"></a>[40]</span></p>
-
-<p>I hope to live to see the day, when innate
-modesty will be the characteristic of
-English women; and <i>of course</i>, when a lady
-will not be more publickly branded with
-infamy for the most barefaced prostitution,
-than for the effrontery which <i>will then</i> be
-necessary to enable a woman wantonly to
-employ</p>
-
-<p class="right">A MAN-MIDWIFE.</p>
-
-<div class="footnotes">
-<div class="footnote">
-<p><a id="Footnote_3" href="#FNanchor_3" class="label">[3]</a> I would by no means be understood to insinuate
-the most distant reflection on Dr. Hunter’s management.
-I have not the smallest idea that any of those
-deaths were in consequence of the least fault in his execution
-of his business. I only mentioned them to shew
-that misfortunes <i>may happen</i> with the most able Man-midwife;
-and therefore that it is cruel to name one or two
-accidents as proof of a woman’s being unsafe, since they
-will happen to the first man in the whole world. I look
-on Dr. Hunter as a most skilful anatomist; able physician;
-experienced, tender, patient Man-midwife. If
-it was left to me to call any man to the labour of a woman
-in imminent danger, and whose life was linked in
-mine, Dr. Hunter is the man I would send for without
-a moment’s hesitation, his skill, but, above all, his
-experience, <span class="smcap">age</span>, and <span class="smcap">infirmities</span>, render him the
-<span class="smcap">only</span> man proper to be allowed <i>to take liberties</i> with
-married women. Yet <i>any woman of experience</i>, in my
-opinion, is <i>infinitely safer</i> than even Dr. Hunter, <i>except
-in very extraordinary cases</i>.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_41"></a>[41]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="LETTER_III">LETTER III.</h2>
-
-</div>
-
-<p>In my two last letters, I believe I satisfied
-those <i>who are open to conviction</i>, that
-<i>even the best</i> Men-midwives are <i>not so safe</i>
-as women,—and that the custom is destructive
-of modesty, and affords those
-Men-midwives <i>who chuse it</i>, finer seraglios
-than are in the possession of the most luxuriant
-Monarchs of the East.</p>
-
-<p>There are bad consequences attending
-the practice which I have not mentioned.
-It is productive of danger, and of many
-evils, even when followed by the most eminent
-men in London;—who can fix limits
-then to its pernicious consequences, when
-a set of <i>raw, unskillful young</i> men are turned
-loose through this town—round its
-skirts—and over the whole kingdom, and
-are received by the credulous multitude
-with no other recommendation than the
-words over the door of “⸺, <i>Surgeon and
-Man-midwife</i>?” Boys think themselves
-qualified for Men-midwives, by having attended<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_42"></a>[42]</span>
-one or two courses of lectures under
-Doctor Hunter,—or, perhaps, without
-having heard any lectures at all, or ever
-having seen a subject anatomized, start
-from behind an apothecary’s counter—and
-begin their career, murdering of infants
-without mercy; and with impunity laying
-the foundation for cancers, and the most
-dreadful diseases in women;—not to mention
-the chance of their ruining the peace
-of families, by introducing vice and discord,
-where health and harmony might
-otherwise have gladdened their serene dwellings.—They
-know enough of the ways
-requisite to use force;⸺they have heard
-female Midwives blamed for allowing tedious
-labours;⸺they think they will be
-deemed expert, in proportion <i>to the quickness</i>
-with which they bring the child into
-the world,—and the mischiefs they of course
-give rise to are innumerable! It is not in
-the nature of things possible that <i>a young
-man</i>, ever so well qualified <i>by study</i>, can be
-<i>a safe</i> Midwife—how dreadful then must
-the situations be of those poor women who<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_43"></a>[43]</span>
-are in the hands of the numberless men
-who practice that business throughout England!⸺The
-people ignorantly take for
-granted <i><span class="smcap">that the sex</span> constitutes knowledge—insures
-safety</i>! The truth is, <i><span class="smcap">the
-sex</span> alone is sufficient</i> to render <span class="smcap">any knowledge</span>
-destructive in <i>general</i> practice. If
-the men <i>must be introduced</i> into <i>the privacies</i>
-of women, I would earnestly recommend
-it as <i><span class="smcap">the most essential</span> qualification</i>
-requisite <span class="smcap">to prepare</span> them for the
-study, that they submit to having their
-<i><span class="smcap">voices</span> made delicate</i>.</p>
-
-<p>And here I should have finished my letter,
-and the subject, if I had not seen an
-Essay in the Gazetteer of the 17th, signed
-“Old Chiron,” which I cannot avoid making
-some remarks on, before I conclude.</p>
-
-<p>The author of it uses tolerable language,
-and probably could write pretty well on
-any other subject. He has done as much
-as could have been attempted in order <i>to
-continue</i> the delusive error which blinds<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_44"></a>[44]</span>
-mankind. He knew he had <i>not Truth</i> on
-his side—he has therefore <i>put words together,
-without argument</i>⸺he has boldly denied,
-what it is impossible to disprove⸺he has
-<i>as</i> boldly <i>asserted <span class="smcap">what never happened</span></i>—and
-then <i>laughed-off</i> facts, trusting
-<i>by ridicule</i> to conceal their existence.
-The pen of <i>Junius</i> could not defend the
-women who use men.</p>
-
-<p>I believe <i>the thinking</i> part of the world
-will join with me in opinion, that he would
-have shewn more wisdom if he had remained
-silent. A bad defence does harm
-to any cause—and <i>the more able</i> the defender
-appears in his stile and language, the
-worse it is for his cause when he convinces
-his readers, that even <i>his abilities</i> cannot do
-it service. The more this subject is investigated,
-the more prejudicial it will be
-to his profession.<a id="FNanchor_4" href="#Footnote_4" class="fnanchor">[4]</a> A practice, <i>adopted</i>, and
-<i>continued through a jumblement</i> of <span class="smcap">ignorance</span>
-and <span class="smcap">vice</span>, can only be favoured by
-suffering <i>an impenetrable</i> shade <i>to veil</i> actions
-<i>fit only for darkness</i>.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_45"></a>[45]</span></p>
-
-<p>Old Chiron has been drove so hard as
-to have been forced to assert that the female
-Midwives always “<i>cram</i> their patients
-with cordials⸺<i>keeping them intoxicated
-during the time they are in labour</i>”—and
-that they act like infernal fiends, “<i>driving</i>
-poor women <i>up and down stairs, notwithstanding
-their <span class="smcap">shrieks</span></i>, and <i>shaking them
-so violently</i> as often to bring on convulsion
-fits, on pretence of hastening their
-labours⸺laughing at their cries⸺and
-breaking wretched jests upon the
-contortions of the women, whose torments
-would make a feeling man shudder
-at the sight.”⸺I believe that
-it is not possible any one can be <i>so sillily credulous</i>
-as to have faith in these most <i>shocking,
-unnatural, improbable, horrid</i> recitals!
-Is it possible even <i>if such a brute</i> in an human
-shame found an entry into an house,
-that the poor lying-in woman could <i>be able</i>
-to be forced “<i>up and down stairs</i>?”⸺and
-<i>allow herself</i> to be <i>shook</i>? If <i>she</i> was ignorant
-enough, and foolish enough to consent,
-<i>would her relations</i>⸺<i>her friends</i>⸺anxiously<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_46"></a>[46]</span>
-attending her, <i>likewise be so ignorant</i>
-as not to know <i>such</i> treatment was highly
-improper, as well as <i>cruel beyond cannibal
-brutality</i>? And this too <i>in England</i>!
-where bearing of children is not so very <i>uncommon</i>,
-so very <i>extraordinary</i> a circumstance,
-as that a Midwife could find means
-to persuade people into such dreadful absurdities!—The
-idea <i>is too ridiculous</i>! I have
-seen among my near relations, many women
-in labour, as long as it was decent for
-a man to be present; and declare I have
-always seen their Midwives treat them with
-the utmost tenderness. I have enquired
-of several ladies of my acquaintance, each
-of whom has bore many children, and always
-employed women, and they have all
-declared they never even <i>heard</i> of any thing
-in the <i>most distant</i> manner resembling such
-treatment, as this <i>interested</i> author has abused
-his talents by relating. To vouch
-falsehoods, and for <i>the most malignant</i> purposes,
-needs no comment. Perhaps some
-diabolical wretch may have behaved in this
-manner⸺but is that ground enough to<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_47"></a>[47]</span>
-erect defamations on, against the whole
-sex? If <i>such</i> proof was to be admitted decisive,
-I could severely retaliate on him
-<i>such</i> proceedings of men, as would melt
-an heart of adamant! and I could bring
-demonstrable evidence to confirm the authenticity
-of my relations—but I have already
-been called “<i>indelicate</i>”—and if I
-was to write the horrors my pen could unfold—delineate
-facts, painting <i>the indecencies</i>,
-and <i>barbarities</i> of men <i>whom I could
-name</i>, I should <i>indeed be indelicate</i>. What
-must then the <i><span class="smcap">acts</span> have been, which <span class="smcap">no
-language</span> can convey a description of,
-without offending the virtuous</i>, and <i>shocking</i>
-the <i>humane</i>! yet I should look on myself
-as very culpable if I had instanced these
-men <i>as standards</i> for the whole profession
-to be judged by. I gave the preference <i>to
-women, <span class="smcap">not</span> because all men <span class="smcap">were brutes</span></i>,
-but because <i>the greatest Saint</i> on earth, <i><span class="smcap">if</span> a
-<span class="smcap">man</span> in health</i>, could not answer for his
-principles being proof against the <i>irresistible
-temptations arising</i> from being <i>freely indulged</i>
-in <i>the most luxurious</i> liberties with all<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_48"></a>[48]</span>
-<i>the feminine</i> beauties of lovely women,—and
-because their knowledge of anatomy,
-and their <i><span class="smcap">instruments</span> being ready at
-hand</i>, too often <i>tempt</i> them to use <i>force</i>,
-and do mischief in parts of the most <i>exquisite</i>
-sensibility, which <i>no</i> art, <i>no</i> care, <i>no</i>
-remedy, can <i>ever</i> after repair; where, if
-<i>nature</i> had been allowed to do her office,
-she would have been <i>a safe</i> operator, and
-all would have ended happily; and let any
-impartial person decide <i>whether a man</i>, who
-knows every method of forcing the birth,
-<i>or a woman</i>, who is conscious of being <i>unacquainted</i>
-with <span class="smcap">that dangerous knowledge</span>,
-<i>are <span class="smcap">most likely</span> to alter the
-<span class="smcap">course of nature</span>, by interfering</i>, where
-she ought to be <span class="smcap">the sole</span> actor?⸺It
-is an indisputable fact, that women have
-such a peculiar sympathy for females big
-with young, that ninety-nine out of an
-hundred carry it to such an excess as to be
-anxious about <i>brutes</i> in that situation. I
-have often heard ladies uneasy about mares
-they have seen with foal, and bitches with
-whelp. It is <i>an instinct</i> implanted, and<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_49"></a>[49]</span>
-interwoven with their natures <i>by the Great
-Source</i> of all things, for the wisest purposes.
-Those <i>who have felt</i> the agonies of
-child birth, surely must be able to sympathize
-<i>more feelingly</i> than men who can only
-form an idea of them by theory. Women
-must be allowed to have more tenderness
-in their natures than men⸺so that <i>in
-every view</i> we cannot contest the point of
-sensibility with them. Yet this author asserts
-women are improper for Midwives
-because they are <i>most</i> inhuman—because
-they drive their fellow-creatures up and
-down stairs—and shake them into convulsion
-fits! did old Chiron write ironically?
-or did he mean to betray the cause of
-the male-practitioners, by asserting fictitious
-nonsense, which carries falsehood on
-it’s face?⸺Let any one <i>view the forceps</i>,
-and then judge <i>whether</i> it is <i>a <span class="smcap">gentle instrument</span>?
-it speaks it’s office!</i>—Let any
-one <i>view the crotchet</i>, crooked scissars, &amp;c.
-sharp knives to be sure are instruments fit
-to be trusted in every hand! they pursue<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_50"></a>[50]</span>
-<i>healing</i> measures! they never commit <i>murder</i>!</p>
-
-<p>The writer was pleased to confine himself
-to what I said of the Hottentot women,
-because the heat of their climate was
-adapted to his purpose. I mentioned likewise
-“the wilds of America,” and the
-kingdoms of Scotland and Ireland. I
-fancy those countries are cold enough in
-winter.</p>
-
-<p>He has quoted the practice of the Athenians
-as an example for our women.
-Though <i>Heathen virtues</i> are great reproaches
-<i>on Christian vices</i> (I should have
-said, on the vices of people who are only
-<i>Christians in name</i>, by outwardly professing
-what their lives are daily contradicting) yet
-I should imagine <i>no Heathen impurities</i> ought
-to be admitted patterns against Christian
-virtues.—Our surgeons are better anatomists
-than the Athenians were; but I am
-afraid the Athenian men were better Christians,
-though they lived before the birth
-of our Saviour.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_51"></a>[51]</span></p>
-
-<p>“But the women of quality <i>do so fall in
-love</i> with their Doctors.”—I beg he will
-excuse me,—I <i>never</i> supposed they <span class="smcap">fell
-in love</span> with <span class="smcap">their male inspector</span>.
-<i>The sensations</i> which <i>Men-midwives</i> give rise
-to, <i>deserve not</i> the name which distinguishes
-<i>that <span class="smcap">noble</span> passion <span class="smcap">of the soul</span></i>.—<i><span class="smcap">Love</span>,
-allies us to our Divine Original, elevates
-our ideas to Heaven, and makes us emulous of
-worthy actions</i>! It’s signification is <i>scandalously
-perverted</i>, when used to describe <i>the
-impure</i> gratifications of sense, which degrade
-us <i>below the brutes</i>!—<i>Love</i>, and <i>Virtue</i>,
-are <i>inseparable</i>. Love never inspires
-the human heart, but when <i>that heart is
-in pursuit of virtue</i>; when <i>vicious</i> purposes
-<i>pollute</i> the mind, <i>it’s end</i> is <i>lust</i>.</p>
-
-<p>“Has there ever been related an instance
-of so unnatural a connexion?” <i>Many</i>
-where <i>it has been attempted</i>—<i>several</i> where
-it has <i>succeeded</i>. Any person may buy the
-trial of Doctor Morley, where they will
-see that he was <i>convicted</i>, and <i>fined a thousand
-pounds</i>, for seducing Mrs. Biker. The
-poor woman accused the Doctor on her<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_52"></a>[52]</span>
-death-bed, and told the whole transaction.
-The Doctor pleaded to his friends “<i>the
-strength of the temptation, the frailty of
-nature</i>; and the impossibility of any man’s
-<i>resisting such powerful charms</i>.” He quitted
-his business; <i>the ladies</i>, however, <i>approved
-his conduct</i>,—it <i><span class="smcap">recommended</span> him <span class="smcap">to
-their favour</span></i>, and <i>he was more employed
-than ever</i>! Doctor ⸺ was forced to
-feign madness to escape the rage of an injured
-husband, for having frightened his
-wife to death! She happened to be <i>a virtuous</i>,
-though <i><span class="smcap">not</span> a <span class="smcap">modest</span></i>, woman!—Count
-<span class="smcap">Struenzy</span> too was a Man-midwife.—Would
-he ever have dared to lift
-his eye, or breathe his infamous passion
-to a ⸺, if he had not been encouraged
-and <i>familiarized</i> by the freedoms admitted
-by the profession of a Man-midwife?
-Certainly no. Whoever reads the news-papers
-of three years back, will find many
-paragraphs informing us of prosecutions
-of Men-midwives for crim. con.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_53"></a>[53]</span></p>
-
-<p>“A man <i>never</i> seen by them <i>but in
-their distress</i>, is sure most unlikely to
-become an object <i>of their desire</i>; nor
-can the ladies, however lovely in the
-bloom of health, be supposed <i>capable of
-retaining</i> their attractions <i>in the hour of
-agony</i>.”—The writer knows that neither
-of these assertions are matters of fact. In
-regard to the first, <i>many women</i> see their
-Men-midwives <i>in perfect health, to be informed
-if they are with child? How far
-gone?</i> “Whether the child lies right?”
-and on many other <span class="smcap">pretences</span>.—Men and
-women, on <i>such trying</i> occasions, <i>must
-give way to <span class="smcap">nature</span>—there is no possibility
-of withstanding it</i>.—As to women’s <i>not</i>
-being “<i>attractingly lovely</i> when in labour,”—there
-he likewise must have been sensible
-that he erred from truth. Those
-pains <i>rather add</i> to beauty; and though,
-<i>during the continuance of racking tortures,
-neither</i> party can attend to any thing but
-the pains felt on one side, and the compassion
-which a good man must sympathize
-in on the other; yet <i>in the intervals</i><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_54"></a>[54]</span>
-(many there <i>always</i> are, and <i>generally</i> they
-are <i>long intervals</i>) <i>no uneasiness on either
-side</i> leaves the minds <i>of both</i> at liberty to
-entertain <i>other <span class="smcap">ideas</span></i>.</p>
-
-<p>“And if he” (the Man-midwife) “is at
-all to answer for their conduct, is, I
-think, only to be reckoned with <i><span class="smcap">for
-recovering them</span> so early</i>, and <i><span class="smcap">so
-putting it in their power to</span> go
-abroad</i> and <i><span class="smcap">coquet it</span> the sooner</i>.”—The
-author is pleased to be <i>facetious with
-the ladies</i>! I do not at all wonder that
-<i>those men</i> who have <i>such foundation</i> for
-censuring their conduct, <i>presume thus</i> to
-ridicule them for their eagerness to visit,
-in order to <i>receive the homage</i> of their <i>criminal
-admirers</i>! I should have thought,
-however, that the subject was not of a
-nature which could authorize such indecent
-raillery. It verifies the old proverb,
-“<i>too much familiarity breeds contempt</i>.”</p>
-
-<p>As to the assertion, that “the faculty
-employ men to their own wives”—I know<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_55"></a>[55]</span>
-very many instances to the contrary—and
-even <i>if this was otherwise</i>, it would be by
-no means conclusive. Men who have
-<i>such choice</i> of fine women <i>to take the most
-licentious liberties</i> with, most probably
-cannot remain long faithful to their own
-wives—they may therefore easily be supposed
-soon to become so indifferent about
-them, as to be very ready to suffer their
-own brethren to lay them, <i>by way of
-<span class="smcap">keeping up the farce</span></i>, and <i>blinding the
-world</i>. I take for granted however they
-permit <i>no private examinations</i>. They are
-too much in the secret.</p>
-
-<p>The gentleman concludes with telling
-us a story of Dr. Ford’s having attended
-a poor woman for three days and nights,
-who had been ill used by a woman.⸺What
-then?—It only proves that Dr.
-Ford <i>is not destitute of humanity</i>, and <i>that
-there is <span class="smcap">one</span></i> woman <i>who interfered with
-nature</i>, and <i>of course did mischief</i>.—I know
-he “is a favourite with many women of
-distinction”—but <i>those ladies <span class="smcap">best</span> know<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_56"></a>[56]</span>
-<span class="smcap">how</span> he has recommended himself to their
-favour</i>. Neither Dr. Ford, nor Dr.
-Hunter, can presume to affirm, that they
-never take the most intimate freedoms with
-ladies, when there is no chance for labour.⸺Indeed,
-the ladies make no secret
-of it—they now can submit to those
-examinations on the morning of an assembly,
-tell their company of it at dinner,
-and go to a tavern to supper!</p>
-
-<p>And now, Mr. Printer, allow me <i>to
-take my leave of you, and the public on
-this theme</i>.—The unprejudiced will be
-convinced—at least it was this flattering,
-this most pleasing hope, that stimulated
-me to write on this subject.—I can have no
-sinister views—the conduct of the world
-will not interfere with my happiness—for
-I never will marry any woman, unless I
-know her sentiments correspond with mine.
-The public are now in possession of all
-I can think on the subject—The good
-sense of the people of England will decide
-how far my hints may conduce to their domestic<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_57"></a>[57]</span>
-happiness.—I leave <i>to other pens</i> to
-proceed on it, <i>in answer to any writer who
-may enter the lists against me</i>. Whoever
-wishes to know my sentiments may review
-these three letters. I should be an
-hypocrite, if I attempted to conceal, that,
-as I took up my pen <i>for the benefit of the
-community</i>, so I shall be <i>most highly gratified</i>,
-if I hereafter find my time has been
-employed to purpose, in <i>opening the
-eyes of the thoughtless</i>, <i>informing the ignorant</i>,
-and <i>warning the virtuous</i>. I despair
-of shaming the immodest!</p>
-
-<p>While I live, I shall think <span class="smcap">no woman
-modest</span> who employs</p>
-
-<p class="right">A MAN-MIDWIFE.</p>
-
-<div class="footnotes">
-<div class="footnote">
-<p><a id="Footnote_4" href="#FNanchor_4" class="label">[4]</a> I take for granted, Old Chiron is a Man-midwife.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<div class="chapter">
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_58"></a>[58]</span></p>
-
-<h2 class="nobreak" id="APPENDIX">APPENDIX.</h2>
-
-</div>
-
-<p>As I do not wish to bewilder the
-Judgments of my Readers, but to
-convince their Understandings,—and as
-I have, throughout my Letters, laid so
-much Weight on the Dangers which attend
-hurrying the Labours of Women, I
-cannot dismiss this Pamphlet into the
-World without endeavouring <i>clearly to demonstrate</i>
-the Utility of allowing Nature
-<i>to adhere strictly</i> to <i>her own</i> Period for accomplishing
-the Birth.</p>
-
-<p>Men, who have <i>not</i> been <i>accustomed to
-thinking</i>;—but whose Lives have been
-spent in the various Occupations, or dissipated
-Pleasures of the World, by having
-been habituated daily to view the common
-round which Providence takes in the
-natural Events of Life, never felt their
-Wonder and Admiration excited by considering
-them in the Manner which is incumbent
-on reasonable, intelligent Beings.<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_59"></a>[59]</span>
-Those, on the other Hand, whose only
-<i>real</i> Enjoyments proceed from a delightful
-Indulgement of the Soul in Contemplations
-on the astonishing Works of God,
-<i>divest</i> themselves of <i>that Familiarity to
-them</i> which the hourly Evidence of their
-Senses would otherwise have obscured—and
-render’d Matter for no rational Reflection.</p>
-
-<p>Thus we are blind to the surprizing
-<i>progressive</i> Change, which enlarges a new
-born Infant, to the size of Manhood! or
-a small Seed, to a large Tree!—If an Infant,
-<i>the day after its Birth</i>, was to walk
-round the Town, in compleat symmetry
-of Person, and six Feet high, would not
-the Miracle forcibly strike the Minds of
-the most thoughtless of our Species?—The
-difference is made only <i>by Custom</i>.
-Twenty Hours, and Twenty Years, are
-exactly the same in the Sight of God!—<i>My</i>
-Amazement is excited by seeing the
-Change wrought <i>in twenty Years</i>, to the
-full in <i>as high a degree</i>, as the <i>same Sight</i>,
-in twenty <i>Hours</i>, would raise the Astonishment<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_60"></a>[60]</span>
-of an embroidered Maccaroni at
-Carlisle House, or, of an infinitely <i>more</i>
-rational, esteemable Being; a poor, ignorant
-Labourer in the Fields!</p>
-
-<p>The Work of Nature, <i>in Labour</i>, is one
-of it’s most extraordinary Acts!—Untill
-the Parts are <i>in some degree prepared</i> by the
-miraculous Change effected in them <i>by the
-Labour Pains</i>, the Child could no more
-enter the World than it could fly into the
-Clouds!—Untill the Parts are <i>properly</i>
-prepared, the Child cannot appear without
-<i>the most obvious</i> Danger.</p>
-
-<p>Every Pain has it’s Office,—it lubricates—it
-dilates. Where these Pains are
-<i>not</i> violent—are <i>not</i> quick in their Return—but
-are lingering, and tedious, they
-<i>plainly</i> indicate that <i>the Woman requires
-great Preparation</i>—Nature is <i>gradually</i>, and
-by <i>the most gentle</i> Means, forwarding <i>the
-Distension</i>—and if left <i>to herself</i>, will <i>not</i>
-bring on the Birth till every thing <i>is accommodated
-to her Purpose</i>.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_61"></a>[61]</span></p>
-
-<p>Men Midwives, seldom wait for Nature’s
-Moment. Women are objected to, because
-they are tedious—Men are extolled
-for their quickness. If Doctor ⸺ has
-two or three pregnant Ladies waiting,
-from whom he expects handsome Payments,
-he will <i>take Merit</i> from hastening
-the Birth—and if any Accident happens
-from his Impatience, his Reputation is
-too well establish’d to suffer in the Eyes of
-Mankind—and the Misfortune is attributed
-to some of the common Casualties attending
-Labour, when it derived it’s
-Source <i>solely</i> from the Doctor’s having
-brought the Child forward, <i>unnaturally</i>,
-before the Parts were pre-disposed, by a
-proper distension, for it’s Reception, and
-Passage. I fear two Ladies died lately
-owing to this very Practice. The Parts
-inflamed—the Inflammation spread by
-Sympathy—the Bowels mortified. If
-these Ladies had lain-in in the Country,
-and had employ’d common, plain Women,
-who pretended to no Knowledge
-but what they derived from Experience,
-it is a Million to one that the Ladies would
-now have been alive and well.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_62"></a>[62]</span></p>
-
-<p>The Men-midwives not only give rise
-to Inflammations by bringing the Child
-before the Woman has felt <i>half the number
-of Pains</i> which Nature intended <i>to predispose</i>
-the Parts—but likewise by <i>their
-abominable Dilatations</i>. Can any Practice
-be more repugnant to common Sense, than
-that of irritating the exquisitely sensitive
-nervous Fibres of those Parts, by way of
-preparing them for Distension? The Men
-absolutely <i>counteract</i> the very end they pretend
-to have in view, by Dilatation!—Friction
-must irritate—irritation must inflame—Inflammation
-must <i>contract</i>. It
-is no Wonder if Parts so nicely constructed—highly
-irritated for (perhaps) Hours,
-should inflame after the Birth, and be productive
-of the most dreadful Consequences!—Yet
-their <i>Officiousness</i> recommends
-them to the Ladies!—I really cannot
-find Words to inform my Readers
-of every Circumstance I wish to relate. I
-start Hints—and leave them to pursue
-the Subject by an exertion of their own
-Reason.</p>
-
-<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_63"></a>[63]</span></p>
-
-<p>I have now entirely done with all which
-relates to the Danger Women and Children
-run through <i>officious</i>, shameful <i>Impatience</i>.
-I have only to recommend one
-serious Reflection to those Husbands who
-think their Happiness would be interrupted
-by detecting any Infidelity in their
-Wives. I beg they will consider <i>the Advantages</i>
-they give Men-midwives, in allowing
-them so many <i>favourable</i> Opportunities
-of <i>extolling the personal</i> Charms of
-the Ladies, <i>whose Beauties</i> lie open to their
-<i>most curious</i> Researches. No Men can
-possibly have <i>such critical</i> Opportunities for
-engratiating themselves with the Fair.
-<i>Flattery, <span class="smcap">critically</span> applied</i> to Women,
-has strange Effects. They can <i>accompany</i>
-their Flattery with <i>irresistible</i> Persuasives.
-The sacred Names of Religion and Honour
-<i>may</i> be made <i>Subservient</i> to their Purposes.
-The more they are pretended to be
-prized in their Estimation, the more <i>they
-may be urged in proof</i> of the <i>bewitching</i> Allurements,
-and <i>forcible</i> Power of those
-hidden Beauties, which have obliterated
-every Remonstrance of Virtue, and stifled<span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_64"></a>[64]</span>
-every Check of Conscience. The poor
-Woman’s <i>Pity</i> is excited, when she views
-the strongest Principles of her “dear
-Man” overcome by <i>her</i> Charms—she can
-only blame <i>herself</i> for possessing <i>such provoking
-Temptations</i>—she is blinded by the
-Assistance of Nature—<i>her own Vanity</i> turns
-Advocate for the Doctor, and acquits him
-of Villainy <i>during the Empire of Passion</i>;
-though the <i>return</i> of Reason, <i>when too
-late</i>! discovers the Artifices which have
-accomplish’d her Ruin!</p>
-
-<p class="right">THE AUTHOR.</p>
-
-<p>I hope Doctor Hunter will pardon <i>the
-latter</i> part of the Reference, at the bottom
-of my second Letter. I fear I misrepresented
-him in attributing Infirmities to
-his share which I am inform’d he never
-yet has experienced. His <i>Abilities</i> are
-great—and if a Man <i>must</i> be employ’d,
-I think he may be called in with as much
-safety as any Man of his Profession.</p>
-
-<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop" />
-
-<p>☞ <i>As this Pamphlet recommends the
-employing of Women, the Publishers have
-taken some Pains to procure a List of those
-who are eminent in their Profession—and on
-the best information recommend the following
-Midwives to those Ladies who have too
-much Modesty to employ Men—and who are
-convinced by the preceding Pages that the
-Men are not so safe as Women.</i></p>
-
-<table>
-  <tr class="row">
-    <td>Mrs. Nihell</td>
-    <td></td>
-    <td><i>Hay Market</i></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr class="row">
-    <td>Mrs. Brooke</td>
-    <td>}</td>
-    <td rowspan="3" class="valign"><i>Cross Key Court, Little Britain</i></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td>Mrs. Stephens</td>
-    <td>}</td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td>Mrs. Lee</td>
-    <td>}</td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr class="row">
-    <td>Mrs. Harris</td>
-    <td></td>
-    <td><i>Mould Makers Row, St. Martin’s Le Grand</i></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr class="row">
-    <td>Mrs. Reynard</td>
-    <td>}</td>
-    <td rowspan="2" class="valign"><i>Bartholomew Close</i></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td>Mrs. Forrest</td>
-    <td>}</td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr class="row">
-    <td>Mrs. Smith</td>
-    <td>}</td>
-    <td rowspan="2" class="valign"><i>Cow Lane, Snow-Hill</i></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td>Mrs. Page</td>
-    <td>}</td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr class="row">
-    <td>Mrs. Phillips</td>
-    <td></td>
-    <td><i>Garlick Hill</i></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr class="row">
-    <td>Mrs. Andrews</td>
-    <td></td>
-    <td><i>Bush Lane, Cannon Street</i></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr class="row">
-    <td>Mrs. Longbottom</td>
-    <td></td>
-    <td><i>Near Guy’s Hospital</i></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr class="row">
-    <td>Mrs. Richardson</td>
-    <td></td>
-    <td><i>Westminster</i></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr class="row">
-    <td>Mrs. Souden</td>
-    <td></td>
-    <td><i>Ratcliff Row, Old Street</i></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr class="row">
-    <td>Mrs. Hall</td>
-    <td></td>
-    <td><i>Bunhill Row, Ditto</i></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr class="row">
-    <td>Mrs. Barnet</td>
-    <td>}</td>
-    <td rowspan="2" class="valign"><i>Somerset Street, White-Chapel</i></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr>
-    <td>Mrs. Larkin</td>
-    <td>}</td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr class="row">
-    <td>Mrs. Blunt</td>
-    <td></td>
-    <td><i>Swallow Str. Golden Sq.</i></td>
-  </tr>
-  <tr class="row">
-    <td>Mrs. Lyttelton,</td>
-    <td></td>
-    <td><i>Amen-Corner, Paternoster Row</i></td>
-  </tr>
-</table>
-
-<p class="center"><span class="gesperrt">FINIS</span>.</p>
-
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