The Province of Midwives in the Practice of their Art Instructing them in the timely knowledge of such difficulties as require the assistance of Men, for the preservation of Mother and Child; very necessary for the perusal of all the sex interested in the subject, and interspersed with some New and Useful Observations.

As the _Birth_ approaches, the Woman grows _hotter_ and _red_ in the Face; the Pains bear more _strongly_ down; the _internal_ Orifice _opens_; the _Vagina_ or _Passage_, at its...

After Delivery, tis too universal a Practice to palliate the After-pains by _Opiates_, which if given beyond the Proportion, necessary to take off the Spasms attending, are misc...

If in the Progress of Travil, the Midwife perceives any Part of the Head, besides the _Crown_, discoverable by its _Sutures_, presenting, and it appear _broad_, and very _hard_...

The _Placenta_ or _After-birth_, being from any violent Shock or Accident, more or less, _separated_ from its Seat, during any Time of Breeding, will produce a Flooding, in Prop...

The Case of _Twins_ may, in many Country Places, be esteemed beyond the Skill of Women _practicing_ Midwifry; but as they are not alike ignorant, and this Delivery, with a right...

The _Arm_ or _Shoulder_ presenting, is so well known to be attended with Difficulty, that few Women will attempt such Deliveries, unless they are so very ignorant, as to imagine...

The Case of _Child-bearing_ Women is very lamentable, in the Country especially, by Reason of the Ignorance and Unskilfulness of _Midwives_; for by their Negligence and perverse...

In this Chapter I have avoided the Use of Terms of Art, or explain’d them, in Regard to those for whom I chiefly write, as far as my Regard to Decency admits; but if any Word sh...

In the Fifth Chapter I have told, how the Midwife may judge, by touching, of an easy Birth; carefully introducing her two Fore-fingers into the Passage, to find the internal Ori...

Many in the Country choose to be on their _Legs_ or _Knees_, supported by a Woman on each Side, or _lean_ on a Chair or Bed, and pass well enough through the present Scene of th...

A Dead Child is often born with abundantly more Difficulty than a _living_ one, for the last by its Struggles considerably promotes its own Birth; whereas, the first lies _immov...

This ought to be put in Practice, as soon as, from the Symptoms given in the Third Chapter, it is reasonable to expect the Birth approaching; and a _Child-bearing_ Person would...

I shall pass over the Symptoms of Pregnancy, and the Distinctions of true and false Conceptions, as Things of which Midwives can seldom be expected to be _proper_ Judges, and pr...

The _Navel-string_, by a Variety of Convolutions, sometimes obstructs the Birth, for being shortned, by its Contortions about the Neck, or any Part of the Body, the _Labour_ wil...

An _unforeseen_ Difficulty may occur, when Appearances are otherwise favourable, from the Strength of the _Membranes_, obstructing the _Birth_, and requiring great Caution to pr...