Note 24 — A TREATISE ON MIDWIFERY. (continued 3)
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It is from this principle, that, with so fair a field for raillery, often not the least forcible of arguments, I have, against those who are such advocates for the use of anatomy in midwifery, abstained from laying any stress on the famous imposition of the Rabbet-woman of Godalmin, upon professors of anatomy. I am so far from attacking anatomy, that I aver, every good midwife ought to know enough of it to assist her practice. This would not however constitute her an anatomist, nor is it requisite that she should be one.