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barren women to be midwives, because human nature is too weak to acquire an art which deals with matters of which it has no experience, but she gave the office to those who on account of age were not bearing children, honoring them for their likeness to herself.Theaetetus
Very likely.Socrates
Is it not, then, also likely and even necessary, that midwives should know better than anyone else who are pregnant and who are not?Theaetetus
Certainly.Socrates
And furthermore, the midwives, by means of drugs
Very likely.Socrates
Is it not, then, also likely and even necessary, that midwives should know better than anyone else who are pregnant and who are not?Theaetetus
Certainly.Socrates
And furthermore, the midwives, by means of drugs