The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latin and compared with the French. by Tho: Johnson. Whereunto are added three tractates our of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, & nerves, with large figures. Also a table of the bookes and chapters.

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Title: The workes of that famous chirurgion Ambrose Parey translated out of Latin and compared with the French. by Tho: Johnson. Whereunto are added three tractates our of Adrianus Spigelius of the veines, arteries, & nerves, with large figures. Also a table of the bookes and chapters.
Author: Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590.
Publication: London :: printed by E: C: and are to be sold by John Clarke at Mercers Chappell in Cheapeside neare ye great Conduit,; 1665.
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Subject terms: Medicine -- Early works to 1800.; Surgery -- Early works to 1800.; Anatomy -- Early works to 1800.
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CHAP. XIV. Of the situation of the infant in the womb.

* 1.1REason cannot shew the certain situation of the infant in the womb, for I have found it altogether uncertain, variable and diverse both in living and dead women: in the dead by opening their bodies presently after they were dead; and in the living by helping them by the industry of my hand, when they have been in danger of perishing by travail of childe-birth: for by putting my hand into the womb, I have felt the infant comming forth, sometimes with his feet forwards, sometimes with his hands, and sometimes wish his hands and feet turned backwards, and sometimes forwards, as the figure following plainly describeth.

[illustration] womb with child

I have often found them coming forth with their knees forwards, and sometimes with one of the feet, and sometimes with their belly forwards, their hands and feet being lifted upwards, as the former figure sheweth at large.

[illustration]

Sometimes I have found the Infant coming with his feet downwards stri∣ding a wide, & som∣times headlong, stretching one of his arms downward out at length, and that was an Hermaphro∣dite, as this figure plainly declareth.

[illustration]

One time I obser∣ved in the birth of twins, that the one came with his head forwards, and the other with his feet, according as here I have thought good to describe them.

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In the bodies of women that died in travail of childe I have sometimes found children no bigg∣er then if they had been but four moneths in the womb, situated in a round compass like a hoop, with their head bowed down to their knees, with both their hands under the knees, and their ••eels close to their buttocks. And moreover, I protest before God that I sound a childe be∣ing yet alive in the body of his mother (whom I opened so soon as she was dead) lying all a∣long stretched out, with his face upwards, and the palms of his hands joyned together, as if he were at prayer.

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The situation of the infant in the womb is diverse.

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