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, _the best Man_-midwife in the world—yet, let the advocates for the _indiscriminate_ use of men lay their hands on their hearts, and answer me ingenuously this question—Suppose any _three_ of the _best_ Midwives in London had lost _in their lives, the same number_ of women of fashion _Doctor Hunter_ has lost _within these two or three years_,[3] would they not have exclaimed loudly, and _taken advantage_ of those deaths _to prove the danger of employing women_? 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. Though the abandoned custom exculpates ladies in the estimation of a dissipated world, yet I recommend to their confederation _how their thoughts, during the visits_ of Men-midwives, will stand the test of the penetrating eye of their Creator. I hope to live to see the day, when innate modesty will be the characteristic of English women; and _of course_, when a lady will not be more publickly branded with infamy for the most barefaced prostitution, than for the effrontery which _will then_ be necessary to enable a woman wantonly to employ A MAN-MIDWIFE. [3] 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 _may happen_ 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, AGE, and INFIRMITIES, render him the ONLY man proper to be allowed _to take liberties_ with married women. Yet _any woman of experience_, in my opinion, is _infinitely safer_ than even Dr. Hunter, _except in very extraordinary cases_. LETTER III. In my two last letters, I believe I satisfied those _who are open to conviction_, that _even the best_ Men-midwives are _not so safe_ as women,—and that the custom is destructive of modesty, and affords those Men-midwives _who chuse it_, finer seraglios than are in the possession of the most luxuriant Monarchs of the East.