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A general treatise of midwifery ... illustrated with upwards of four hundred curious observations and reflexions concerning that art / Written originally in French by La Motte ... And translated into English by Thomas Tomkyns, surgeon.

Guillaume Mauquest de La Motte

Date:: 1746

Credit: A general treatise of midwifery ... illustrated with upwards of four hundred curious observations and reflexions concerning that art / Written originally in French by La Motte ... And translated into English by Thomas Tomkyns, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$[ X ] * A GENERAL O F MIDWIFRY. BOOK I. What Delivery isy and how many forts of it. BY Delivery, is meant the coming forth of the child out of the mother’s womb. Of this there are three forts \ the natural\ lefs natural, and that againft nature. A natural Delivery is that where the child is born at the end of nine months, with fcarce any other help, but that of nature. The left natural is that where there are fame obftrucftions to the difpofition of nature to finifh her work, which make the labour long and difficult; but thefe things admitting of redrefs, the labour goes on well afterwards. The Delivery againft nature is that, where the woman cannot bring .forth without help. B To$