Man-midwifery dissected; or, The obstetric family-instructor
Subtitle: For the use of married couples, and single adults of both sexes. Containing a display of the management of every class of labours by men and boy-midwives; also of their cunning, indecent, and cruel practices. Instructions to husbands how to counteract them. A plan for the complete instruction of women who possess promising talents, in order to supercede male-practice. Various arguments and quotations, proving, that man-midwifery is a personal, a domestic, and a national evil. In fourteen letters. Addressed to Alex. Hamilton ... Occasioned by certain doctrines contained in his letters to Dr. W. Osborn
By: By John Blunt [pseud.] ...
Publisher: Published for the author, by S.W. Fores; and to be had of all the booksellers in town and country
Published: 1793
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 236
Subjects: Obstetrics; Early works to 1800; Women physicians; Women Physicians
Notes: Purchased for the Boston Medical Library through the Bookfund of Franc D. Ingraham Jeremy Norman & Co 442 Post Street, San Franciso, CA 94102-1579 1990 Aug. 18 1990-91/p/1.

Presented by C. M. Bigelow to Dr. Geo. F. West, Sept. 1, 1923, with Bigelow family armorial bookplate.

Imperfect: p. [i-ii] (half-title?) wanting. Publisher's advertisement, p. [234]-236.

Halfbound in late 19th century brown polished calf and marbled boards, black leather label on spine, spine lettered and stamped in gilt.