The danger and immodesty of the present too general custom of unnecessarily employing men-midwives. Proved incontestibly in the letters which lately appeared under the signature of a man-midwife / With an introduction, a treatise on the milk, and an appendix by the author.

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The danger and immodesty of the present too general custom of unnecessarily employing men-midwives. Proved incontestibly in the letters which lately appeared under the signature of a man-midwife / With an introduction, a treatise on the milk, and an appendix by the author. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : J. Wilkie, (etc.), 1772.

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73 pages ; (8vo)

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The 2d ed. ...

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ESTC T10392

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Defense of Mrs. Elizabeth Nihell's Treatise on the art of midwifery, tentatively attributed to her husband, a surgeon-apothecary. Cf. J. H. Aveling, English midwives, 1872 [reprint 1967] p. 125.
List of female midwives in London: p. 73.

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