Volume 2

The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife ... Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position ... To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician / [Hendrik van Deventer].

  • Deventer, Hendrik van, 1651-1724
Date:
1728
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Credit: The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife ... Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position ... To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician / [Hendrik van Deventer]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    right Underftanding of what they are about ; and that no Inftrument is to be ufed againft Infants, except they are Monfters, or are furely dead, and ufelefs Members of hu- man Kind. * An Author has lately, on a paffing View of fome Parts of Generation, fhewn the Danger and Ufelefsnefs. of dilating Inftru- ments on this Occafion, and that Men ei- ther deceive themfelves, or would impofe upon the World, who pretend to pradctife with them: But Dr. Daventer, as if he had not been fatisfy’d with condemning thofe In- ftraments of Death, thro’ the Courfe of his Practice concludes, + “ That if the Labour “ of Women with Child may be happily “ compleated by the Method and Rules of “ this Book, to what Purpofe are fo many ‘¢ Inftruments recommended by moft Au- “ thors, whofe Figures they are at the “ Trouble to give us? ‘To which he adds, “ ‘That I think former PraCtitioners have kil- led many more Infants than ever they fa- “ ved by any of their Openers of the Matrix, their Hooks, or any of their Inftruments, dom, nay never ufeful, but when Infants * Pag. 11. Of a Treatife of the Gonorrhea. We 2 293. sé drawing