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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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    brpwn, and very adhering. The wonaan fufFered violent pains for fome days, then, remained very je_^fy. \ Reflexion. The waters having been gone off four days made me apprehend more difficulty in bringing away this child, which engaged me to ufe two pair of forceps inftead of one. Observation CCCCVIII. I The fourteenth of July 1717, I was befpoke to attend the lady of .... in her labour^ which was to happen in January, She is the the fmalleft woman I ever delivered in my life, being obliged to have a ftool to reft her feet upon when ffie is fitting at ta¬ ble. She fuffered fome flight pains for two days, then the waters came away without their encreafing till the day after; I then more narrowly enquired into the fituation of the child, who prefented the head, but ftiil very high : I took notice, that upon forcing my finger round it, it turned about as a ball that is fixed on a plvet; whence I concluded that the Jargenefs of the fhoulders w^ere as inftrumental to the difficulty of the labour^ as that of the head. The pains came on fometimes very ftrong, then went off again ; things remained in the fame condition to the fourth day, when the pains encreafed to fuch a degree, as to force juft the fuperficies of the head between the bones; her belly was become fo hard and painful that fhe could not even bear her fliiff: upon it, which forced me to form a fort of pit in the bed for her hips to go in, and make her lie fomewhat eafier; a loofenels and al- moft total fuppeffion of urine came on. I began now td^ 'defpair of the affiftance of nature ; and being