Note 6 — A TREATISE ON MIDWIFERY. (continued 2)

If a man happens by great chance to have long taper fingers, it is a circumstance so uncommon, that it is proverbially said of him, “He has rare midwife’s fingers.” Nor was it quite unhumorously observed of one of the founders of the sect of instrumentarians in England, remarkable for a raw-boned coarse, clumsy hand, that no forceps he could invent of iron or steel, being more likely to hurt than his fingers, he had, at least, that excuse for recommending instruments.