The English midwife enlarged containing directions to midwives; wherein is laid down whatever is most requisite for the safe practising her art. Also instructions for women in their conceiving, bearing and nursing of children. With two new treatises, one of the cure of diseases and symptoms happening to women before and after child-birth. And another of the diseases, &c. of little children, and the conditions necessary to be considered in the choice of their nurses and milk. The whole fitted for the meanest capacities. Illustrated with near 40 copper-cuts.

SECT. XVIII. Figure the Ninth.

DR. But I pray you, Mrs. Eutrap. How will you deliver a woman of a child that falls down with its buttocks forwards, and the hands spread over the head, according to this figure.

[illustration] depiction of the baby in the womb in an unnatural position for birth: presentation of the buttocks

Mid. Here, Sir, I must annoint my hands as above-said, and putting it up, must lift up the fundament of the child, and turn the head to the Birth. But, in this case I must not make too much haste, lest it fall into a worser form; neither is it possible that a child should be so born, without great loss to the Mother and Infant; therefore, if it cannot be turned with the hand, she must be brought to the bed, where, if she be very weak, she may be refreshed with convenient meats and cordi∣als, and then often proceeded with as is said before, until the Infant shall come to a more commodious form of birth.

Dr. Your observations and apprehensions of danger in this operation are very good; so that when the next opportunity presents you will find my former directions to be best and safest.