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A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery: Setting Forth Various Abuses Therein, Especially as to the Practice With Instruments: the Whole Serving to Put All Rational Inquirers in a Fair Way of Very Safely Forming Their Own Judgement Upon the Question; Which It Is Best to Employ, in Cases of Pregnancy and Lying-in, a Man-midwife; Or, a Midwife — John Shaqi

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A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery: Setting Forth Various Abuses Therein, Especially as to the Practice With Instruments: the Whole Serving to Put All Rational Inquirers in a Fair Way of Very Safely Forming Their Own Judgement Upon the Question; Which It Is Best to Employ, in Cases of Pregnancy and Lying-in, a Man-midwife; Or, a Midwife

Name: A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery: Setting Forth Various Abuses Therein, Especially as to the Practice With Instruments: the Whole Serving to Put All Rational Inquirers in a Fair Way of Very Safely Forming Their Own Judgement Upon the Question; Which It Is Best to Employ, in Cases of Pregnancy and Lying-in, a Man-midwife; Or, a Midwife
Author: Nihell, Elizabeth

Nihell, Elizabeth

Midwifery -- Early works to 1800; Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800

UPON the whole, I throw myself, with the more confidence, on the
favorable acceptance of the public, from my consciousness of its not
being but with the best intentions for the good of society that I hazard
this production: and have therefore reason to hope, that it will
occasionally be remembered, that my object is purely that of
representing a truth, and not of recommending a composition.

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                                CONTENTS
                                   OF
                            PART the FIRST.


 _In gratitude of the men-midwives at Paris to their women-teachers of
    the art_, page 6.

 _Regulations of the profession of midwifery not unworthy the national
    care_, 9.

 OBJECTION I. _Prior possession of the art in the men_, 14.
   ANSWER, 14.

 OBJ. II. _Preference of the men founded on the nobility of the art_,
    17.
   ANS. 15.
   _Egyptians not so simple as Dr. Smellie pretends_, 19.

 OBJ. III. _Writings of the men-authors prove the antiquity of
    men-midwives_, 24.
   ANS. 24.

 OBJ. IV. _Manual operation a science fittest for the men_, 28.
   ANS. 29.

 OBJ. V. _Anatomy necessary_, 32.
   ANS. 32.

 OBJ. VI. _Instruments, their use peculiar to the men_, 35.
   ANS. 36.

 OBJ. VII. _Ignorance only exclaims against instruments_, 39.
   ANS. 40.
   _Dr. Smellie’s false account of the_ Hôtel-Dieu _at_ Paris, 44.
   _No men-practitioners suffered in it_, 47.
   _Dr. Smellie’s Doll-machine_, 50.
   _Compendious forming of pupils_, 52.

 OBJ. VIII. _It is a presumption in women to enter into competition with
    men in this art_, 52.
   ANS. 53.

 OBJ. IX. _Opinion prevalent of superior safety under the hands of the
    men_, 58.
   ANS. 59.

 OBJ. X. _Ignorance of the women_, 73.
   ANS. 73.
   _How the young men students get their_ learning, 80.
   _Women cruelly used to procure it them_, 83.
   _Story of a woman’s child killed with a crotchet_, 92.
   _Examination of a passage of Plato quoted by Dr. Smellie_, 99.
   _Pecquet, a great anatomist, the victim of his own erroneous
      speculation_, 101.

 OBJ. XI. _Partial artists the best_, 106.
   ANS. 107.
   _Story of a Dentist_, 109.
   _A man-midwife’s toilette_, 111.
   _Story of a woman perishing suddenly after delivery_, 128.
   _Cruel method of training up pupils_, 137.
   _Story of a child horribly murdered_, 139.
   _Lessons of midwifery given by Madam Clavier_, 144.
   PUDENDIST, _a name in the stile of oculist or dentist, more proper
      for a male-practitioner of midwifery than_ ACCOUCHEUR, 151.

 OBJ. XII. _Men-midwives have terminated happily many labors_, 151.
   ANS. 151.
   _Triumph of a man-midwife_, 158.
   _Why young practitioners should conceal their instruments_, 173.
   _Appeal to numbers for the greater safety with women, verified by the
      practice of the midwives at the_ Hôtel-Dieu _at_ Paris, 180.

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