Note 37 — A TREATISE OF MIDWIFERY. Part the Second. (continued 2)
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That is to say, if he touched the woman at all with it, and did not sometimes, at least, make believe that he delivered her with it though Nature alone should have done the work. Sure I am that that piece of quackery in him of pretending to hide the instrument, might justify such a suspicion, of a less guilt however than that of really applying an instrument insignificant to any purpose but that of torture in vain.