A complete practice of midwifery : consisting of upwards of forty cases or observations in that valuable art, selected from many others, in the course of a very extensive practice. And interspersed with many necessary cautions and useful instructions, proper to be observed in the most dangerous and critical exigencies, as well when the delivery is difficult in its own nature, as when it becomes so by the rashness or ignorance of unexperienc'd pretenders. Recommended to all female practitioners in an art so important to the lives and well-being of the sex / By Sarah Stone, of Piccadilly.

  • Stone, Sarah, active 1737.
Date:
1737
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A complete practice of midwifery : consisting of upwards of forty cases or observations in that valuable art, selected from many others, in the course of a very extensive practice. And interspersed with many necessary cautions and useful instructions, proper to be observed in the most dangerous and critical exigencies, as well when the delivery is difficult in its own nature, as when it becomes so by the rashness or ignorance of unexperienc'd pretenders. Recommended to all female practitioners in an art so important to the lives and well-being of the sex / By Sarah Stone, of Piccadilly. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BSERVATION XXIII. 'The Delivery of a Woman? with great difficulty, her Child prefenting the Arm W A S lent for to a School- Miitrefs : when I came, I found her Pains fmall, her Wa¬ ters broke four days before : lhe was very ill, and had a Fever. I Touch’d her, and found the Child lay a-crols. One Arm and the Ribs prefenting lirft, the Waters being pait, and her Bo¬ dy hot and dry, I apprehended ’twould be a difficult Labour ; and fo it proved : for as 1 Hid my fingers along the Ribs, to fearch for