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concept-2192	none	An Instrument of Gender: Re-evaluating the Role of the Male-Midwife and the Lying-in Chamber in Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century England	2017	22	.pdf	application/pdf	6609	304	61	24 Cody, 41. 25 Ibid., 41-42. 26 See Laurinda S. Dixon, Perilous Chastity: Women and Illness in Pre-Enlightenment Art and Medicine (Ithaca, New York 1995) for more information on physicians who engaged with women during illness. In 1673, just two years after the printing of Sharp’s The Midwives Book, Hugh I (1620-1720), the son of Dr. Peter Chamberlens (1601-1683), had re-petitioned the Crown of England, as previous generations of his family had done, to patent an instrument by which his family had gained much notoriety for as practicing male midwives.	cache/concept-2192.pdf	txt/concept-2192.txt