Medical professional who practices obstetrics as a health science.
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A physician, a surgeon, and man-midwife, generously undertook to attend the sick gratis.
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Beyond the door, attended by her maid and a man-midwife, Ruth shut her teeth upon her throes.
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Surely your mother bare you a scoffer and pitiless, Socrates, and not, as you boast, a man-midwife fit for fair youths.
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But yet forgive me this one thing; for my mother bare me, as you know, a man-midwife, after her own trade, and not a sage.
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It's more a jumping-off point to discuss the Pouch of Douglas, a vacant space in the female anatomy that 18th-century man-midwife James Douglas "discovered".