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, IV. THEY who leave all these Things to mere NATURE, risque their PATIENT’S future _Welfare_, and very often her _Life_ too, as innumerable _Tragical Examples_ witness: For NATURE itself most particularly requires our special _Assistance_ in this _Case_. But (according to their indifferent _Notions_) it is _Time_ enough to assist NATURE, when it is found _Deficient_; and then, in _Case_ of EXTREMITY, they unanimously agree that there is no other way to help or save the _Woman’s_ LIFE, but by this METHOD of _Manual Operation_. To which I answer, that NATURE operates not in an _Instant_, but (in all _Cases_) requires a competent _Time_, to discharge its respective _Functions_; and being left too long to itself, for want of Help, is many a-time (by intervening _Accidents_) found at last _Incapable_: Upon which, then _They_, beginning their Endeavours to _second it_, generally come too late. For if the _Case_ does not prove to be past all _Remedy_, it is at least (by this _Protraction of Time_) often rendred not only _difficult_, but also _desperate_; as will evidently appear in the _Case in hand_, from what follows, _viz._