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“Physicians were never consulted for pregnancy, and Margaret knew that when she was confined for delivery, only women would be allowed to attend to her. As late as 1522, a German physician with insatiable curiosity dressed as a woman to observe a birth. His trespass was punished: he was burned to death.”
― Linda Simon, Of Virtue Rare: Margaret Beaufort, Matriarch of the House of Tudor