Medical, philosophical, and vulgar errors, of various kinds, considered and refuted / by John Jones, M.B.

  • Jones, John, 1726?-
Date:
1797
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Credit: Medical, philosophical, and vulgar errors, of various kinds, considered and refuted / by John Jones, M.B. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fhe moft unaccountably happens to be fo fickly a breeder, though the neighbouring old midwife had been regularly inftru&ed in the Lying-in Hofpital, and had fucceff- fully received many fcores of children, that in fo bad a cafe no expence fhould be fpared, and that Ihe fhould be conveyed to London in a litter, to be delivered by a Mr. Some¬ body, faid to have made an improvement upon Smellie’s forceps; the very mention of which, injudicioufly urged, though meant as an inducement, and as it were an anchor of hope in her worfl: extremity, to prevail upon her to put herfelf under his care, to¬ gether with the circumftance fo very {Lock¬ ing to a woman of modefty and delicacy, of fuffering any male whatever to interfere with her in the proper and peculiar province of the bona Dea ; muft inceffantly prey upon her thoughts and fpirits during her whole journey, and with additional force in pro¬ portion to her nearer approach to town 5 fo that it would be much to be wondered at if fhe were not frightened, in a dream of the forceps at midnight, into an unexpected ^ . fudden