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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

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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$Ch. 3 ^he weaknefs of the mother^ that of the child^ or of both together^ do not always make the labour lingering „ Page 149 ^ Ch. 4. T^hat the length and difficulty of labour does not proceed from a woman*s never having had any chiU dren before \ that the fir ft makes not way for the others^ and that the coccyx is no obftacle 152 Ch. 5. Of the true caufes of a lingering and diffiicuU labour 25S Ch. 6. ne child coming with the face upwards is oM of the caufes of a long and difficult delivery 162 Ch. 7. Of the face prefenting 164 Ch. 8. Of the threads prefenting 166 Ch. 9. Of the circumvolutions of the navelfiring round any part of the child*s body i6(y Ch. 10. Of the child*s having the Jhoulders too large 173 Ch. II. Of the head being too big 175 Ch. 12. Which is the bcftjituation for a woman in la^ hour 176 Ch. 13. if hat we ought not to take the falfe pains for a lefts natural delivery 180 Ch. 14. Of the buttocks prefenting 184 Ch. 15. Of mifearriages 185 Ch. 16. Oft mifearriages through any external caufe 193 Ch. 17. '•That mifearriages happen fometimes without any evident cauje; as alfo that women fometimes go their full time^ ivhen there is all the reafon imagina¬ ble to expedt that they Jhould mi fear ry 197 Ch. 18. Of miftcarriage through rafh adlions 202 Ch. 19. Why feveral women mifcarry without any ma- nifeft caufe ' 205 Ch. 20. That \dho\ivpains are often brought on by other pains 209 Ch. 21. Of the pains which fucceed delivery 211 Ch. 22. Of lame and crooked women 216 Ch. 23. Of two children at a birth 223 Ch. 24. Of births which may be ranked amongH the natural and lefs natural ones too 229$