THE DANGER AND IMMODESTY OF _The Present too general Custom of_ UNNECESSARILY EMPLOYING MEN-MIDWIVES. BEING The Letters which lately appeared under the Signature of A MAN-MIDWIFE. WITH AN INTRODUCTION, A TREATISE ON THE MILK, AND AN APPENDIX. WITH CORRECTIONS By the AUTHOR. LONDON: Printed for J. WILKIE, No. 71, in St. Paul’s Church-Yard; and F. BLYTH, John’s Coffee-House, Cornhill. MDCCLXXII. AN INTRODUCTION AND ADVICE TO THE LADIES, POINTING OUT _The DANGERS attending BACKENING their MILK the first four or five Weeks after Delivery._ To the PUBLIC. 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 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.