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CHAP. XV. Of the last forme and fashion of an unnaturall birth, and the cure of it.
THere is another forme of an unnaturall birth, which may bee viewed here, the one comming with his head downe∣ward,
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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.
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- 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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- 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 24, 2025.
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and the o∣ther with the feete, which forme truely is framed and com∣posed of a naturall and unnatural kind of birth.* 1.1 But when it shall happen that two children doe shew themselves in this manner: let the Midwife first bring forth the former of them being turned into a naturall forme, and shee shall remove the other comming with his feet first, and if it
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shall be possible, she shall reduce and bring him backe againe into the womb, that he also may be disposed and framed to the forme of a natu∣rall birth; But if he cannot be converted into a better forme, his hands streight way being taken hold of, hee must be procured and moved to issue forth.* 1.2 Yet it would be more safe that it be turned to a naturall forme; and to effect the same, the Midwife shall bend her diligent la∣bour, by annointing, removing, and turning to and fro, lest that the womb be offended and hurt by such a forme and manner of an unna∣turall birth, and lest also the fore-skins begin to swell, whereby the birth cannot come forth without danger, or may be hindred longer. All which things truely by provident care may either be avoyded, or at least in some sort amended.
The end of the fourth Booke.
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* 1.1
A naturall and unnaturall kind of birth.
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* 1.2
More safe if it be turned to a naturall birth.