The Anatomist Dissected: or the man-midwife finely brought to bed. Being an examination of the conduct of Mr. St. Andre. Touching the late pretended rabbit-bearer; as it appears from his own narrative.

A flamboyant surgeon‑anatomist takes the microphone to expose a baffling hoax that has seized the nation’s imagination: a woman allegedly giving birth to a litter of rabbits. Drawing on his globe‑spanning adventures and hard‑won medical expertise, the narrator rails against the pretensions of Mr. St. André, a self‑styled “man‑midwife” whose curiosity leads him into a circus of letters, gossip, and impossible deliveries. The prose crackles with the wit of early‑modern satire, turning the absurdity of the “rabbit affair” into a broader indictment of ignorance masquerading as science.

Listeners are invited into a lively courtroom of ideas, where the author dissects the fraud with the precision of a scalpel while poking fun at the gullible crowds. As the investigation unfolds, the clash between learned observation and credulous speculation promises both humor and a glimpse into the uneasy relationship between enlightenment and superstition in eighteenth‑century Britain.