[Man-Midwifery and Decency]
Anon
Genre: | Anecdote, Drollery |
Subjects: | Medical Practitioners, Gender, Morality |
Relates that a man-midwife near Lincoln had a sign outside his house stating: 'A RIDLEY, Man-widwife.—Ladies delivered on the shortest notice, and on moderate terms.—Such ladies as wish to be delivered decently, my wife attends.' | |
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