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.
- 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.
- Obj. IV. Manual operation a science fittest for the men, 28.
- Obj. V. Anatomy necessary, 32.
- Obj. VI. Instruments, their use peculiar to the men, 35.
- 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.
- Obj. IX. Opinion prevalent of superior safety under the hands of the men, 58.
- 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.
- Obj. XIII. Prevalence of the Fashion, 184.
- Ans. 184.
- Parallel of error in the preference of men-midwives to that of bringing up of charity-children by hand, 187.
- Story of a woman ashamed of having been lain by a midwife, 204.
- Inoculation justified, 207.
- The greatest lady in Britain no example in favor of Accoucheurs, 210.
- Midwives formed by the men-practitioners liable to caution against them, and why, 213.
- Alarming danger of a scarcity of good midwives, to what owing, 217.
- Obj. XIV. False-modesty, that of the women, who prefer the practitioners of their own sex, 219.
- Ans. 219.
- Story of Agnodice and the Athenian women canvassed, 219.
- Dr. Smellie’s Commandment to his pupils against immodesty, 224.
- No stress laid on the Rabbit-woman of Godalmin, 225.
- Attitude indecent, and to no end nor purpose, 237.
- A stone of more virtue than a man-midwife, 239.
- Conclusion of the FIRST PART, 244.
- Part the Second.
- Containing various observations on the labors and delivery of lying-in women, including a description of the pretended necessity for the employing instruments, Introduction, 249.
- Of Deliveries, 256.
- Story of the sudden death of a woman after delivery, 261.
- Accounted for, 262.
- Method of prevention, 263.
- Histeric medicines invented by the learned men-practitioners, and examples of their insignificance, 267.
- Of DIFFICULT and SEVERE cases, 277.
- Divisions of them, 279.
- Profound ignorance of certain men-midwives, 282.
- Their avarice and cruelty set forth by a man-midwife, 286.
- Midwives incapable of such horrors, 288.
- The Crotchet used, and its horrid effects, exemplified in several stories, 291.
- A VOLUME might be made of them, says a man-midwife, 298.
- Some instances of male-practice, 304.
- Of Touching, 309.
- Of the OBLIQUITY of the UTERUS, 329.
- Of the EXTRACTION of the HEAD of the FŒTUS severed from the BODY, and which shall have remained in the UTERUS, 358.
- Speculum matricis given up by Dr. Smellie: so would other instruments be, if justice was done them, 367.
- A curious method of CELSUS, 369.
- Inventions of CAWLS and FILLETS, 369.
- Of that labor in which the HEAD of the FŒTUS remains hitched in the passage, the BODY being intirely come out of the UTERUS, 372.
- Quackery of Daventer, 378.
- Two examples of children, the one killed, the other supposed dead, and losing its head by errors in the manual function, 379.
- When the HEAD of the fœtus presents itself foremost but sticks in the passage, 289.
- Objections to instruments more at large included under the title to this section, 389.
- Mauriceau’s tire-tête, 395.
- Palfin’s FORCEPS,
- with the improvements of various practitioners, 398.
- A waggon load of instruments insufficient, and why, 401.
- A curious nostrum of an instrument, 406.
- Mr. Freke’s ingenious invention of a FORCEPS and CROTCHET all in one, 416.
- Dr. Smellie’s improvement of the forceps, 417.
- The curve forceps of Levret, 419.
- Case of a PENDULOUS BELLY, 445.
- Triumph of the moderns over Hippocrates and the antients in the invention of the forceps, 452.
- Inhumanity and folly of the general conspiracy against children, 458.
- Conclusion of the Second Part, 466.