OR, WOMEN RESCUED. A FAMILIAR TREATISE RELATING TO THE Prevalence, Practice, and Evil Tendencies OF MAN-MIDWIFERY. Opprobrium medicorum." LONDON: PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR; AND PUBLISHED FOR HIM, BY WILLIAM KIDD, 7, TAVISTOCK STREET, COVENT GARDEN. M. DCCC. XXXVIII. 194. PREFACE. THIS Treatise, in relation to a subject of the highest possible importance to society, is offered to the consideration of the public in perfect sincerity of purpose under strong impressions. "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto." TERENCE. It is founded chiefly upon a directional work on "The Theory and Practice of Midwifery," published some years since in two vols. by an eminent physician, whose name is disclosed in the sequel of this work a publication which was so well received and so highly valued by the profession, that it went through four editions. The text-book, therefore, being a professional one of welcomed instruc |