lights I received from the study and experience. Neither did I pretend to teach Midwifery, till after I had practised it successfully for a long time in the country; and the observations I now publish, are the fruits not only of that opportunity, but more immediately of my practice in London, during ten years, in which I have given upwards of two hundred and eighty courses of Midwifery, for the instruction of more than nine hundred pupils, exclusive of female students: and in that series of courses, one thousand one hundred and fifty poor women have been delivered in presence of those who attended me; and supported during their lying-in, by the stated collection of my pupils: over and above those difficult cases to which we were often called by midwives, for the relief of the indigent.