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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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    INDEX : er Ft E CHAPTERS. CHAP. Page 1; F the Qualifications which are required, to make a Woman fit for the Pratticé of Midwifery. .t II. Of the Theory neceffary for Midwives, 16 III. Of the Pelvis and its Bones, in which the Womb is placed, and through which the Infants pafs in their Birth. 18 ) V. Of the Neck of the Womb 30 IV. Of the Worth; | 27 VI. Where, and how the Womb is feated in a Wo- mans Body, . 3% 3 ‘VIL. Of the Womb of thofe that are with Child, 34 VILL. Of the Thickne/s of the Womb in Women with Child, f R 35 1X. Of a Womb impregnated a little before and prefently after Birth, and the Manner of Extenfion as well tides : z