. faid orifice: pain 
AND FAMILY DISPENSaTory. 229 
See ean mr it ei, 
«SP hd cniillieh eae us prejudices of ignorant and officious midwives, 
€ mulcnier done in this way 1s much greater than is rally j » mo 
of which might be prevented by allowine Peet RT, va 
8 no women to practife midwifery but fuch 
- as are properly qualified, Were due attention paid to: this, it would not only be 
the ae of faving pied lives, but would prevent the neceffity of employing men 
in this indelicate and difagreeable branch of medicine, which is, on many accounts, 
more proper for the other fex. In order to obtain 4 perfect idea of the procels 
of delivery, and to form a competent knowledge of difficult child-births, it is ne- 
ceffary we fhould firft underftarid thofe that are natural. The time of the natural - 
birth is from the 15th day of the ninth month to the end of the goth of the fame: 
yet fome women affirm it'may be fooner or later. Hoffman fays, the ufual time 
is nine folar months 3 and Junker, that, excretions from the uterus being by women 
referred to certain lunar phafes, they reckon their going with child by che weeks, 
and that they ufually exclude the foetus forty weeks from the time of their being 
with child, commonly on that very daythey were uféd to have their menfes. When 
this time is arrived, ¥ ‘ich may be known bya I nark ible defeent of the womb, 
and a fubfidence of the belly, the foetus is nature for delivery; it then turns round, 
and its head falls cowards the orifice of the womb, asintheannexed plate, where A A 
denotes the portion of the chorion diffeéted and removed from its proper place; B, 
4 portion of the amnios; © C the membrane of the wonib diffetted ; D D the pla- 
- eenta endued with many f veffels by which the infgnt receives its nourifhment " 
EE the varication of the vefféls which makes up the navel ftring; F F the navel 
‘flring, by which the umbilical veffels are carried from the placenta into the pavel 
GG the infant asit lieth perfect in the. womb ready for delivery Hi che infection 
of the umbilic veffels into the navel of thein inte T he orifice of the rom amg 
and the chorion and amnios, being dri- 
w. 
r ca a “ p P = se Laer ee 2 
there is a frequent a 
“touch, with the fore and middle fin 
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