PART THIO. 



MIDWIFERY, OR A GUIDE TO HEALTH 



IN THE HOUR OF TRAVAIL. 



*'The Flebrew women are lively, and are delivered ere the 

 midwives come in unto them.— Exodus, 1 19." 



This part of our work, as will be observed by the 

 head, is designed as a short treatise on the duties 

 and labour incumbent upon women at frequent 

 periods of their existance. It is one ofthecom- 

 plainta peculiar to women of which men share 

 but little of the troubles and pangs, with the ex- 

 ception of their inward feelings, aflections, ties, 

 and the duties they owe their tender and affec- 

 tionate wives at these critical moments; but as 

 our work IS so limited, and this part, of so much 

 importance to the female part of the community, 

 we have but little if any room to expaciate on the 

 duties of husbands in this, the most freqiiently 

 precarious aud laborious of all female complaints. 



As tliP subject we are about to embrace is a 

 very diRiciilt one to pursue with correctness and 

 justice without proper room, we are fully convin- 

 ced that this short treatise will be but illy con- 

 structed, but our principal object will be, to ex- 

 plain m as few and as plain terms as possible, 



our own viewB, together with the bestandmost 

 approved course to pursue durii 



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