Didn't Have a Doctor to Watch Women Giving Birth?

For many centuries, doctors weren't allowed at births because men weren't allowed to see woman giving birth. When doctors started taking over in the nineteenth century, it was decided that actually women couldn't handle being in the room with other women giving birth. But the lancet medical journal wrote in 18 68 that women are too delicate to watch someone else giving birth,. and only men could brave the revolting scenes of childbirt awow, we just can't hack it. Bcause we actually never have to see it, right? I think you just lay there going, can anyone smell back? Leveraha, haha, that is such a salutarious thing to say to you know