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A general treatise of midwifery ... illustrated with upwards of four hundred curious observations and reflexions concerning that art / Written originally in French by La Motte ... And translated into English by Thomas Tomkyns, surgeon.

  • Mauquest de La Motte, Guillaume, 1655-1737.
Date:
1746
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A general treatise of midwifery ... illustrated with upwards of four hundred curious observations and reflexions concerning that art / Written originally in French by La Motte ... And translated into English by Thomas Tomkyns, surgeon. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    child did not a little contribute to it, and the pla¬ centa followed eafily. * ' Reflexion. General rules mud fometimes yield to particular circumftances. The child notwithftanding its mother’s infirmi¬ ties went its full time, and was born full of life. Observation LXVIII. A poor woman fcrophulous in almoft every part of the body, but particularly in the groin, and in all the joints of the inferior parts, whofe whole fubfiftence was begging at the church-door, be¬ came pregnant in that condition; as I had deli¬ vered her before fhe fell into thefe diforders, fhe defired me to continue this charity, which I readily promifed her. The fourth of December 1701, the time of her delivery being come, fhe fent for me*, her pains from flow, in a little time became ftrong enough to en¬ gage me to place her in as good a fituation as fhe could bear, not having confined her to any before the waters were come away, and the child fhewed the crown of the head. As the thighs had ftill kept their power of flexion, in fpite of the ulcers in the groins, and the knees only were fixed, her legs and thighs being rigid; I laid her upon the little bed as ufual, and committed to two ftrong women the care of holding up her legs, the thighs with the buttocks formed a fort of angle, which left the paflage almoft as free, as if the heels had been towards the buttocks. She had a flout girl. Obser-