But, and this is more in accord with the enthusiastic accoucheur we know Chapman to have been, he joined with Douglas in hoping to see "Any scheme put in execution for the real good and improvement of Midwifery." How wide a publicity this wordy warfare created it is difficult to estimate, but it is highly significant that in I739> only three years later, a lying-in hospital was started in Jermyn Street, St James', Westminster, by Sir Richard Manningham, the foremost obstetrician and teacher of the time.
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