I. IF after the BIRTH of the INFANT, the _Hand_ be presently pass’d into the WOMB, it slips in together with Part of the _Arm_, as far as is needful, without the least _Trouble_ or _Inconvenience_ to the WOMAN; the WOMB as well as its ORIFICE continuing always, so long as _this_ may be done, sufficiently _Open_: And thus the BIRTH maybe skilfully accomplished or perfected, as it were, in an _Instant_; while _others_ (trying their vain _Projects_) spend many trifling _Hours_ about it, and it is _ten to one_, if at last they succeed.
II. BY these means, moreover, I presently know whether there be _One_, _Another_, or _More INFANTS_ to follow; whether there be a _dead CHILD_, _false CONCEPTION_, or any _Foreign Body_ whatsoever, lodged in the WOMB; whether any _Part_, or _Pieces_ of the SECUNDINE, or _Membranes_, or _Lumps_ of _Clotted Blood_, be left behind and retain’d: All which I propose to bring away either _before_, or _after_ the SECUNDINE, as Occasion serves, with the greatest _Safety_ as well as _Expedition_.
III. AFTER having thoroughly searched on all _Sides_, and thus duly cleans’d the WOMB, by continuing my _Hand_ in it, until it contracts about that _Hand_, first _above_ towards the _Bottom_, and then _below_ towards the _Orifice_, which happens very quickly: I find myself _then_, by great Experience, able to rectify all _Oblique_ and _Preternatural Situations_ of the WOMB; as in _Case_ of a PROLAPSUS, (or _Falling down_) I can hereby move it carefully _Up_ again: If it lies too much _Backwards_, by elevating it while it gradually contracts, I can easily bring it _Forwards_, to its _Natural Position_: If it hangs too much _Forwards_, I can quickly reduce it _Backwards_: If it tends to _either Side_, I can directly move it to its Center. And thus, in short, I hope I may be allow’d gently and gradually to restore the WOMB to its _Natural Place_ and _Posture_, how _Preternaturally_ and _Obliquely_ soever its _Situation_ may happen to be disorder’d.
NOW This being so successfully done, I can, in fine, assure and secure any _Lying-in-Woman_, that her WOMB is both duly _purg’d_, and naturally _shut_ again as it ought to be; which I take to be the greatest _Satisfaction_ the CHILD-BED-WOMAN can conceive in her Condition. Whereas,