An address to the public on the propriety of midwives, instead of surgeons, practising midwifery.

  • Pickmere, John Richard.
Date:
1826
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An address to the public on the propriety of midwives, instead of surgeons, practising midwifery. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    must be considered a gross abuse, and to recommend innocent means of alleviating one of tbe many dis- tresses, to which human life is exposed, in this fleet- ing and probationary state of existence. In this tract the writer has adopted precisely the form of words, which were intended to have first appeared in the public press. In thus continu- ing the epistolary style, he trusts, that he shall not be charged with egotism ; having preferred that style only on account of its appearing to him to be freest from restraint, and in the present case of a public appeal, best calculated to aid his humble, yet earnest efforts, to awaken the attention of the public to the importance of the subject, and to the propriety of the following remarks.