HENCE it is that the _wrong Positions_ of the _WOMB_ are manifold, which would be very tedious to enumerate exactly here; but only, that I may not pass by what is so _material_, I shall reduce them to a _Four-fold Difference_; as the _Ancients_ did the _Winds_, because of the _Four Regions_ or _Limits_ of the Heavens. And _Those Four_ will (I hope) comprehend all other _wrong Situations_ of the _WOMB_, not very improperly or _mal-à-propos_, as _Ovid_[156] has comprehended _These_ in the following elegant _Verses_, viz. _“Eurus ad Auroram Nabathæáq; regna recessit, “Persidáq; & radiis Juga subdita matutinis. “Vesper & Occiduo quæ littora sole tepescunt, “Proxima sunt Zephyro, Scythiam septémque triones “Horrifer invasit Boreas. Contraria Tellus “Nubibus assiduis, pluvióq; madescit ab Austro._ THE _first_ bad _Position_ of which is, when the _Bottom_ of the _WOMB_ is placed on the _left Side_ of the Woman, a little raised or depress’d; the _Orifice_ being turn’d towards the SPINE of the right OS ILIUM or OS PUBIS, against which the INFANT in time of BIRTH commonly pushes its _Head_, beats out its Brains, and sticks there to Death: Or else passing the said SPINE, it lies _a-thwart_ the PELVIS. THE _Second_ ill _Position_ of the _WOMB_ is, when the _Bottom_ is seated on the _right Side_; the _Orifice_ being turn’d towards the _left Part_ of the PELVIS, directly opposite to the _other Position_, and attended with the same _Inconveniencies_. THE _Third_ is, when, in _Women_ having large _Bellies_, the _WOMB_ hangs too much _Forwards_; the _Orifice_ being turn’d towards the OS SACRUM: So that the INFANT falls down by the _Head_ into the Bent, or crooked _Cavity_ of the OS COCCYGIS, where it fatally sticks fast. THE _fourth Oblique Situation_ of the _WOMB_ is, when its _Bottom_ is press’d too near the DIAPHRAGMA, and its _Body_ too near the VERTEBRÆ of the _Loins_; the _Orifice_ being elevated, is thereby turned too near the _OS PUBIS_, where the INFANT striking its _Head_ against these _Bones_, remains immoveable and perishes: Or, (which is worse) sliding with its _Head_ upon the _OSSA PUBIS_, it is turn’d on one or other _Side_ or _Backwards_; when (commonly with _Hand_ or _Arm_ out of the Body) it lies _a-thwart_ the Passage, and infallibly occasions its OWN or its MOTHER’S _Death_, or _Both_; unless (as in the _three_ preceding _Cases_) it be in due time prevented by the _Assistance_ of some very skilful HAND.