The compleat midwife's practice enlarged in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man containing a perfect directory or rules for midwives and nurses : as also a guide for women in their conception, bearing and nursing of children from the experience of our English authors, viz., Sir Theodore Mayern, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpeper ... : with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter ... / by John Pechey ... ; the whole illustrated with copper plates.

Of a young Woman, who being struck upon the belly by her Husband with his foot, was in great pain, and could not be brought to bed without the help of a Chi∣rurgeon.

I Will here relate a thing which I have seen in a young Woman; that, if the like accident should happen, the same Remedies may be applied. There came a Woman to me, to declare to me a disease with which she was troubled, desiring me to do my utmost; for that hitherto, she could not lye in without the help of a Chirurgeon, who had already killed two of her Children. I, knowing what an ill Husband she had, and that he had given her a blow upon the belly with his foot, and had broken the Peritonaeum; which was the reason, that part of her guts hung down upon the share-bone like the bag of a Bag-pipe; to which place, being big, the Womb jutted out, so that when the time came, the Infant had not liberty to turn it self; so that the Midwife seeing she could not have the Child without losing the Woman, was fain to make use of Chirurgeon. I considered her disease, and ordered her to carry a swatheband, such a one as Women with Child carry to support their bellies, only made a little more hollow; and I caused her to wear it as they that are burst do wear half-flops, lying smooth with cushio∣nets within, and never to rise without this, whether big, or no; which she did, and still does, and bears as fine Children, and lyes in as well, as any other Woman.