Views in Edinburgh and its vicinity; . ward, which was fitted upat the expense of Dr. Young, in the Royal Infirmary, and LYlNa-IN HOSPITAL. there frequent opportunities were afforded them of practisingiu midwifery. From the earliest ages to no great distance from our owntimes, midwifery was performed, perhaps, exclusively bywomen ; and there is every reason to believe, that those em-ployed by the Hebrews, the Greeks, and the Romans, were allfemales. Nor do we meet with a single instance, of a chirur-gical, or medical practitioner, having been had recourse to,and actually employed, earlier than
Views in Edinburgh and its vicinity; . ward, which was fitted upat the expense of Dr. Young, in the Royal Infirmary, and LYlNa-IN HOSPITAL. there frequent opportunities were afforded them of practisingiu midwifery. From the earliest ages to no great distance from our owntimes, midwifery was performed, perhaps, exclusively bywomen ; and there is every reason to believe, that those em-ployed by the Hebrews, the Greeks, and the Romans, were allfemales. Nor do we meet with a single instance, of a chirur-gical, or medical practitioner, having been had recourse to,and actually employed, earlier than the middle of the seven-teenth century. Perhaps among the earliest practitioners onthe continent, was M. Julian Clement, a surgeon of highreputation at Paris, who attended in a difficult case, Madamede la Valiere, in 1663, and Dr. William Harvey. The latterhaving published his celebrated treatise on generation, shortlyafterwards engaged in the practice of midwifery, and followedup his practice with his Exercitatio de Partu. -?^^ m^. MARINERS HOSPITAL, LEITH. The Inhabitants of Leith were divided into four classes, andwere erected into as many corporations by the queen dowager,Mary of Lorraine, These were the mariners, maltmen, traders/and trafficers : the first consisted of ship masters and sailors jthe second of malt makers and brewers ; the third of coopers,bakers, smiths, wiights, &c. and the fourth of merchants andshopkeepers. Of these corporations, the mariners are themost considerable; they obtained from Mary of Lorraine, agift, afterwards ratified by William and Mary, of one pennyduty on the ton of goods in the harbour of Leith, for the sup-port of their poor. This duty, which about the year 17^0 didnot amount to £40 per annum, in less than twenty years hadincreased to above £lOO a year, and must still be augmentedin proportion as trade flourishes : for the further support of thepoor belonging to the corporation, the ship masters pay an-nually sixpence in the pound ou
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