A man-mid-wife [graphic].[approximately 1795]engAn etching showing a single human form with the left half shown as a male apothecary and on the right a housewife. She is shown standing on a rug before a cooking fire with a saucepan. He is shown with shelves of bottles behind himTitle etched below image.After Isaac Cruikshank; see British Museum catalogue.Date of publication from British Museum catalogue.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Four lines of text following the title, etched below it: ... or a newly discover'd animal, not known in Buffon's time ...Temporary local subject terms: Male midwives -- Obstetricians -- Allusion to Georges Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, 1707-1788 -- Literature: allusion to Man-Midwife Dissected -- Saucepans -- Grates: domestic grates -- Midwifery -- Bipartite figures -- Medical instruments: obstetrics -- Surgeons' dispensaries.