| Description Of Item | From the collection of Samuel Merriman. Printed copies of 'The Danger and Immodesty of the Present too General Custom of Unnecessarily Employing Men-Midwives Proved Incontestibly in the letters which lately appeared under the signature of a man-midwife with an introduction a treatise on the milk and an appendix' by Philip Thicknesse, 1772; and 'An Enquiry into the Merits of These Two Important Questions I Whether Women with Child ought to prefer the assistance of their own sex to that of men-midwives II whether the assistance of men-midwives is contrary to decency or whether it can in any way alarm the modesty of the fair sex during the time of their being with child or in labour?' by Louis Lapeyere, 1772 (a response to Thicknesse's pamphlet). Both pamphlets are in the same volume with annotations at the start and end by Merriman some of which he dated 8th June 1823
Merriman's bookplate on front flyleaf. |