[82] Let any man who disputes this position peruse the case of D----against D----, in Robertson's Reports of Cases in the Ecclesiastical Courts, a terrible picture of conjugal contention and wretchedness in high life, all clearly attributable to the accoucheur, who insisted upon the husband leaving the lying-in chamber, and influenced the wife, fatally for her husband's peace and her own, to concur in his exclusion. A more flagrant instance of medical presumption and insolence could not readily be found. "Here then," says Sir Herbert Jenner Fust, in his judgment, "is the clue to everything that subsequently took place--an end of all that happiness and comfort which might have been expected to attend the union between these parties." The archives of the law would afford the inquirer many a fearful example of similar evils consequent on the unnatural and sinful practice of man-midwifery. Transcriber's Notes: Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_. The original text includes Greek characters. For this text version these letters have been replaced with transliterations. Punctuation has been corrected without note. The following misprints have been corrected: missing "be" added (page 24) transposed lines correced (pg 62) "instrustrument" corrected to "instrument" (page 63) "aros" corrected to "arose" (Footnote 11) "Pitsburgh" corrected to "Pittsburgh" (Footnote 41) "surgica" corrected to "surgical" (Footnote 52) The mismatched quotation mark in footnote 68 is presented as in the original text. Hyphenation inconsistencies have been retained from the original.