THESE _speculative Heads_, in short, shall be the particular _Subjects_ of the respective _Chapters_, of the consequent Part of this SECTION, for the requisite _Instruction_ and indispensible _Qualification_ of all young _MIDWIVES_: As the _Practical Part_ shall be the _Subject-Matter_ of the two next following SECTIONS. Which _Practical Part_, I shall now likewise reduce to the _Three_ subsequent general _Heads_; of which she ought also to have a full and compleat _Knowledge_, viz. I. OF the various _Methods_ to be taken for the present _Ease_, and expeditious _Relief_ of the LABOURING _Woman_. II. OF the discreet _Method_ of TURNING an ill-situated _INFANT_, (whatsoever the preternatural _Posture_ may be) and drawing it forth _safely_ by the FEET. III. OF Her own personal _Duty_ (as _MIDWIFE_) both to the _MOTHER_ and the _CHILD_ after _Delivery_; as also towards all _Labouring Women_, to whom she may be call’d, upon _critical Conjunctures_. THESE I call _practical Heads_, because they depend more upon _Practice_ and _Experience_, or _Judgment_ and _Charity_, than upon any _fundamental Rules_; which however yet ought also to be reckon’d _Branches_ of her _THEORY_. BUT notwithstanding all these natural and acquir’d _Qualifications_, the _young MIDWIFE_ is not to run at once into the _Practice_: Nor to hurry herself rashly to lay _Hands_ upon the _ARK_, before she is thoroughly well accomplished for so sacred a _Work_; lest (like _Uzzah_) _she_ be punished for her _Temerity_; whereof I have seen several exemplary _Precedents_. No, the _Work_ is too important, and the _Concern_ too weighty for that hasty indiscreet _Undertaking_; for there is no less than the _Life_ of the MOTHER, and _one_ CHILD at least, (if not sometimes _more_) at _Stake_: Both which may be soon saved, or quickly lost, according to the Good or Bad _Conduct_ and _Management_ of the _MIDWIFE_. WHEREFORE, to the End, that she may obtain the necessary _Experience_, and perfect her Judgment, _&c._ in due Course, she ought to satisfy herself at first to go (for some time) as an _Assistant_ to some _skilful Woman_ of good Business, and so by degrees advance herself into the _Practice_: Because _Dexterity_ in this _ART_, is only acquir’d by _Time_ and _Exercise_; the _practical Part_ of _MIDWIFERY_ being attended with so many complicated Circumstances of _accidental Difficulties_, that it is almost impossible for any Persons, who never apply’d themselves this way, to believe how much it differs from all the _THEORY_, that the most ingenious _MAN_ can make himself _Master_ of.