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SECT. II.
Of the MIDWIFE.
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Midwife, though she can hardly be supposed mistress of all these
qualifications, ought to be a decent, sensible woman, of a middle
age, able to bear fatigue; she ought to be perfectly well instructed
with regard to the bones of the Pelvis, with all the
contained parts, comprehending those that are subservient to
generation; she ought to be well skill'd in the method of touching
pregnant women, and know in what manner the womb stretches,
together with the situation of all the abdominal Viscera;
she ought to be perfectly mistress of the art of examination
in time of labour, together with all the different kinds of
labour, whether natural of præternatural, and the methods
of delivering the Placenta; she ought to live in friendship
with other women of the same profession, contending with them
in nothing but in knowledge, sobriety, diligence, and patience;
she ought to void all reflections upon men practitioners, and
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