Hints to Husbands: A Revelation of the Man-Midwife's Mysteries

The author mounts a sustained critique of male practitioners attending childbirth, arguing their presence offends female modesty, undermines domestic morality, and grew from fashionable precedents. The text exposes procedural practices by citing practitioners' manuals, assembles opinions from medical and scientific voices, and mixes moral argument with a brief historical sketch. Addressed directly to husbands and fathers, it calls for public rejection of the custom and for a return to female-led care as the means to remedy what the author presents as an entrenched and degrading social wrong.