...want; yet the Holy Scriptures hath recorded Midwives to the perpetual honour of the female sex. ... It is not hard words that perform the work, as if...understand Greek. Words are but the shell, that we oftimes break our Teeth with them to come at the kernel, I mean our brains to know what is the meaning...

...scepticism about medical theories. Men might be learned, observed the midwife Jane Sharp, but in childbirth 'It is not hard words that perform the work, as if none understood the Art that cannot understand Greek'.2 Further, female gossip about sexuality 82 could subvert the dominant discourse about male...

...poor and in a starving condition, and then they have more need of meat than midwives) the women are as fruitful, and as safe and well delivered, if not much...understand Greek. Words are but the shell that we oft times break our teeth with them to come at the kernel (I mean our brains) to know what is the meaning...

...must be both speculative and practical, and says that midwifery is the natural propriety of women. ... It is not hard words that perform the work, as if...understand Greek. Words are but the shell, that we oftimes break our Teeth with them. ... It is commendable tor men to employ their spare time in some...

...gynecological, and obstetrical precepts in lay words: "It is not hard words that perform the work, as if more understood the Art that cannot understand Greek. Words...mean our Brains to know what is the Meaning of them" (pp. 3-4). 43 Mr. Spectator was voluble on the rampant "Humour of Shortning our Language" that, exemplified...

...poor and in a starving condition, and then they have more need of meat than Midwives) the women are as fruitful, and as safe and well delivered, if not much...mean our brains to know what is the meaning of them; 1. Schools: emended from "Schools". 2. situation: emended from "sitution" at line break. 3. propriety:...

...Sharp, insisted on dissociating Nature's truths about the human body from the mysteries of language: 'It is not hard words that perform the work, as if...ofttimes break our Teeth with them to come at the kernal.'47 The idea that 'truth' must be distinguished from mere words was a basic premise of the scientific...

...preeminence of practical experience over knowledge acquired from books in the actual childbirth situation: "It is not hard words that perform the work, as if...understood the Art that cannot understand Greek." Deferring to the prevailing mind set of the seventeenth century, Sharp allowed the suitability of men...

...of knowledge of Greek, the language of academic medicine, the English midwife Jane Sharp maintained, "It is not hard Words that perform the Work, as if...understand Greek. Words are but the Shell, that we oftentimes break our Teeth with them to come at the Kernel, I mean our Brains, to know what is the...