CHAP. I. Of the situation of the child in the womb.
COncerning the scituation of the child in the womb, it may be consider∣ed either generally, or specially; specially, either as it concerns the male, or the female.
The male is commonly scituated in the right side of the womb, the female in the left.
The general situation of the childe, either male or female, in the womb, is always the same. Which hath been observed and seen to be in this posture, when the infant lies with his back and his buttocks, leaning against the back of the mother, the head enclined, and touching his breast with his chin; resting his two hands upon his knees, his navel and his nose between his two knees, with his two eyes upon his two thumbs; his legs folded backward, and touch∣ing his buttocks with each leg.
This figure is the most natural, as being least subject to suffer any accident, being less incon∣venient,