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tells little master to take up his coats and 

 piss like a man. — So it is, custom governs 

 and sanctions every thing ; or how could 

 the most delicate and decent women per- 

 mit a man-midwife, six feet high and two 

 feet broad, over the loins, to attend them 

 during their pregnancy ; taking liberties, 

 onl]^ professionally, to know whether the 

 child lies right. Sec, and, after that, to de- 

 liver them ? 



I have often thought that we men have thegvest loss 



^ Mankind sus- 



lost a very great benefit and pleasure from bdn^'^'i^^^le- 

 women not having studied physic, so as to dLl^^^^'" 

 \.?i^^ owt \h.€\x diplomas as physicians; for, 

 when I was a young man, I must confess 

 that it v/ould have been extremely satisfac- 

 tory to me, when the complaint was so 

 desperate, as to render it necessary to call 

 in two female physicians, in order that they 

 might attend diligently to my disorder, to 

 request them both to pass the night with 

 me, and partake of my bed ; and then, in 

 the morning, for their kind attention to my 

 disorder, dismiss them with a liberal fee *. 



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