The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And the many errors in all the books hitherto written upon this subject clearly refuted ... : Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life of either mother or child / written in Latin by Henry à Daventer ; made English ; To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician.

  • Deventer, Hendrik van, 1651-1724.
Date:
1716
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Credit: The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And the many errors in all the books hitherto written upon this subject clearly refuted ... : Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life of either mother or child / written in Latin by Henry à Daventer ; made English ; To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ... * V Some Account of this WOtffJf. || Peg. u/Of || An Author has lately, on a a Treatife of View of fome Parts of Ge- the Qmorrhea. 1 P n r^. , neration, lhewn the Danger and Ufelefnefs of dilating Inftruments, on this Oc- cafion , and that Men either deceive thcm- felves, or would impofe upon the World, who pretend to Practice with them : But Dr. Deventer, as if he had not been fatisfy’d wit'h condemning thofe Inftruments of Death, thro’ the Courfe of his Practice f Pag. 273. conciuc]e3, f “ That if the La- “ bour of Women with Child may be hap- “ pily compleated by the Method and Rules “ of this Book, to what purpole are fo many “ Inftruments recommended by moft Authors, “ whofe Figures tliey are at the Trouble to tc give Us ? To which he adds, That I think “ former Practitioners have killed many more: “ Infants than ever they Saved by any of their “ Openers of the Matrix, their Hooks, or any “ of their Inftruments, &c. Every Perfon may ££ be convinced by what is faid, that thefefn- “ ftrumentsare feldom, nay never ufeful, but “ when Infants have been floathflilly neg- *! lefted, or for drawing out of Monfters j So <« that hereafter the Midwife’s Art will hot “ be efteemed Horrid, Inhuman, or Cruel”, And therefore this Book is not only of the greateft Ufe to Midwives, but is an excellent Vindication of Divine Providence, and of the Humanity wherewith Midwifery ought to be ©