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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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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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    palTage, as to appear outwardly, without being any ways confined, leaving room for the hand to pafs round it, without reaping any benefit from it. The ftrength and frequency of the pains are only able after a long while to make thefe fhoulders advance, which will pufh out the head before them, then the furgeon is to help with his hands on both fides, without however making ufe of too great force for fear of feparating the head from the body, and to Aide as foon as he can his fingers under the axilla’s, and bring out each arm one after another, and finifh by this means this delwery^ which is one of the moft difficult. Observation CXXII. The twentieth of November 1689, I was fent for to lay a merchant’s wife. The pains which were ftrong and frequent, made me expedl a quick deli-^ '\ery^ confirmed indt by the fituation of the child. The membranes foon broke and the head ad¬ vanced to the crowning, but (he had above a hun¬ dred pains after, till at lafl, by drawing on my part, and fhe pufhing downwards, I difengaged the head, and made myfelf room to introduce my fingers under the axilla’s, by which means I drew out the arms, one after another; after this I had nothing more to do than to draw without any fear. The child who was a boy, was alive notwith- fianding all thefe ftruggles, and the placenta fol¬ lowed eafily. I fuffered the woman to take breath as long as ffie would, before I dreft her and put her to bed.