London, at present, affords equal Advantages of Information; for the anatomical Wax-work, with suitable Lectures, might furnish as good a Qualification, with less Offence than real Dissections; and there are not wanting those who professedly instruct both Sexes by mechanical Demonstrations.

And for the future, it is to be hoped, there will be no Necessity for Men to have Recourse to PARIS for Observation, since we have Infirmaries at Home for the Accommodation of Women in Child-bed; and tho’ they are expos’d naked to the Eye in the Hotel de Dieu, it must be confess’d, that the fundamental Rules of the Art are not built on what the Eye of the Observer can possibly discover in the most expert Operators; but depend on Circumstances conceal’d from Sight, within the Body of the Patient.

But whatever Advantages LONDON and WESTMINSTER afford for the Instruction of Midwives, the Country is entirely destitute of . . . Read More