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CHAP. XIV. Of the fourteenth forme, and the cure of it.
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The expert midwife, or An excellent and most necessary treatise of the generation and birth of man. Wherein is contained many very notable and necessary particulars requisite to be knovvne and practised: with diuers apt and usefull figures appropriated to this worke. Also the causes, signes, and various cures, of the most principall maladies and infirmities incident to women. Six bookes compiled in Latine by the industry of Iames Rueff, a learned and expert chirurgion: and now translated into English for the generall good and benefit of this nation.
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- The expert midwife, or An excellent and most necessary treatise of the generation and birth of man. Wherein is contained many very notable and necessary particulars requisite to be knovvne and practised: with diuers apt and usefull figures appropriated to this worke. Also the causes, signes, and various cures, of the most principall maladies and infirmities incident to women. Six bookes compiled in Latine by the industry of Iames Rueff, a learned and expert chirurgion: and now translated into English for the generall good and benefit of this nation.
- Author
- Rüff, Jakob, 1500-1558.
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- London :: Printed by E. G[riffin] for S. B[urton] and are to be sold by Thomas Alchorn at the signe of the Greene Dragon in Saint Pauls church-yard,
- 1637.
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- Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800.
- Infertility -- Early works to 1800.
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"The expert midwife, or An excellent and most necessary treatise of the generation and birth of man. Wherein is contained many very notable and necessary particulars requisite to be knovvne and practised: with diuers apt and usefull figures appropriated to this worke. Also the causes, signes, and various cures, of the most principall maladies and infirmities incident to women. Six bookes compiled in Latine by the industry of Iames Rueff, a learned and expert chirurgion: and now translated into English for the generall good and benefit of this nation." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A11176.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 21, 2025.
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ALso this is the forme of an unnaturall birth of twinnes, which we propound and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 forth to be view∣ed in this figure, that is to say, with the feet of both the Infants turned to the mouth of the Matrix,* 1.1 such a birth is very dangerous, but to be remedied and corrected by the wisdome of the Midwife. Therefore let the Midwife annoynt the womb of the labouring-woman, that by that, the way may bee more easie for the birth: which being done, she shall have a care that she take hold of the armes of one of the children, and hold them hard brought downeward to the sides, and
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gently procure the head to proceed forth. He being borne, by and by the other being taken hold of, let her proceed in like manner. But if she cannot apprehend the armes of neither, so that there is no hope of a happy birth, shee must haue recourse to the first forme and fashi∣on of them, if peradventure the children may be sooner delivered and brought forth into the light by that meanes and turning which is per∣formed on the bed.
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This birth of twins very dangerous.