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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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    I k Reflexion. 1 ' That the fhoulders were our hindrance appeared from the head being far advanced, from its being loole and free in the vagina^ and by its not going back when the pains ceafed, but maintaining the ground it got, however flowly it got it. CHAP. XI. i Of the head being too big, These are the figns whereby the head of the child is known to be too big: the wo¬ man labours under the fharpeft pains, the waters are come away, and the child is well placed, the head which is very far off, advances but very flow¬ ly, and with great difficulty; when the head has begun to pafs between the os pubis and facrum^ and is juft engaged in the vagina^ it remains there a long while without mounting up during the inter- I val of the pains, and the child does not come into i the world *, but after having remained a long while in the paffage, and that part of the head which offers is fo contufed and fv/elled, that it looks as if it had a falfe head on ; but this fwelling foon goes off, by the means of a cloth dipped in warm wine. 1 Observation CXXIII. The twenty-fourth of April 1711, I was fent for to lay a lady four leagues off; I found her with flow pains, wherefore I only advifed her to go to bed, and take all the reft flie could, to preferve her ftrength againft fhe fhould want it. The night [ paffed on in the fame manner, till fix in the morn-