. A treatise on the art of midwifery. Setting forth various abuses therein, especially as to the practice with instruments: the whole serving to put all rational inquirers in a fair way of very safely forming their own judgment upon the question; which it is best to employ, in cases of pregnancy and lying-in, a man-midwife; or, a midwife . ed in the paffdge^ ^the bodybeing intirely come out of the vt^ru^^ 372*packery of Daventer^ 378, Two examplesof children i the one killed, the other fiippofeddeady and lofing its head hy errors in the ma--nualfimBiony 379. Wr-e^ the HEAD d?/ the fat its pref


. A treatise on the art of midwifery. Setting forth various abuses therein, especially as to the practice with instruments: the whole serving to put all rational inquirers in a fair way of very safely forming their own judgment upon the question; which it is best to employ, in cases of pregnancy and lying-in, a man-midwife; or, a midwife . ed in the paffdge^ ^the bodybeing intirely come out of the vt^ru^^ 372*packery of Daventer^ 378, Two examplesof children i the one killed, the other fiippofeddeady and lofing its head hy errors in the ma--nualfimBiony 379. Wr-e^ the HEAD d?/ the fat its prefents itfelf foremofi but (licks in the paffagCy 289. Ob- jeBions to injiriiments more at large included under the title to thisfeBion^ 389. Mauri- ceaus tire-^tete^ 395* Paifins forceps. vi C O NT E NTS. iviibthe improvements of various praSlitioners^398. A waggoft load of inftrumenfs unfuf-jicienty arid why-^ 401« A curious noftrum^f an inftrument^ 406. Mr Frekes tngeni-^ous invention of a forceps and crotchetall in one^ 416. Dr. Smellies improvementif the forceps^ 417. Tihe curve forceps ofLevret^ 419. Cafe of a P^i^DVLOJjs belly, 445. Triumph of the modems over Hippocrates andthe antients in the invention of the forceps^4^2. Inhumanity and folly of the generaldcnfpiracy againji children^ 488. Conclusion of the Second Part, A TREATISE O N MIDWIFERY.


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