Meanings of man-midwife in English

A physician, a surgeon, and man-midwife, generously undertook to attend the sick gratis.

Beyond the door, attended by her maid and a man-midwife, Ruth shut her teeth upon her throes.

Surely your mother bare you a scoffer and pitiless, Socrates, and not, as you boast, a man-midwife fit for fair youths.

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.

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".