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CHAP. IIII. Of the fourth forme of an unnaturall birth and of the cure of it.
SOmetimes it hapneth that the child appea∣reth in an overthwart manner, and that the side commeth forth first, which hapning,
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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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- 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 24, 2025.
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neither is the labou∣ring-woman to be urged to labor, nei∣ther the Infant to be desired in this manner.* 1.1 For that a childe should bee borne so, with∣out all controver∣sie, both Nature and the thing it selfe do shew that it is an impossible thing. Wherefore the Mid∣wife shall doe her endevour,* 1.2 that she reduce and bring backe to the lawfull forme of a naturall birth, I say, by removing the buttocks, and by
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directing and guiding the head to the out-pas∣sage; if it shall not be effected this way, let her as∣say by often moving and stirring, untill he shall be turned to a right forme and manner.
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* 1.1
Impossible to bring forth the birth in this manner.
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* 1.2
To be reduced to a naturall birth.