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CHAP. VI. Of the sixt forme and fashion, and of the helpe and remedy 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.
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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 21, 2025.
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shall proceed to the birth with both the knees, the hands let downe a∣bout the thighes, then let the Mid∣wife thrust both the knees upward with her right hand con∣veyed into the place, untill it shall hap∣pen that the feet shall issue forth, and then let her take hold of the feet with her left hand, but the hands retained about the sides, with her right hand let her gently move the childe to proceed to the birth. If this shall not seeme to be safe enough, the labouring-woman shall be brought to her bed, where lying backward
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in the manner before spoken, shee shall move and turne her selfe so long, untill the child shall be turned to a better forme and fashion of birth.