Volume 1

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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    MIDWIFERY IMPROV’D, FL AYP. Of the Qualifications which are requir'd, to — make a woman fit for the practice of midwifery. Mafter or Artift, who would inform his Scholar, or young Beginner, in any Art or Science, to confider and thoroughly enquire into the Qualifications which thofe Perfons ought to be furnifhed with, who are to praétife any Arr, or to be inftruéted in any Science ; or he mutt at laft_ complain both with lofs of Time and Shame, that all the Pains he hath taken was to no pur-/ pofe. Therefore before we proceed to inform thofe who are inclin’d to the Praétice of mid- wifery, it will not be foreign to confider, how fuch ought ta be qualified, whether in Natural or acquired Accomplifhments, to render them more fuccefsful in the Praétice of that Art in procefs of Time, | : : if T is both neceffary and reafonable for any