IN short, the True _Method_ of _Delivering_ and helping the WOMAN conveniently, in the different _Conditions_ contain’d in this _Chapter_, depends entirely upon _repelling_ or thrusting back the _Point_ of the OS SACRUM, together with the OS COCCYGIS. I say (therefore) the whole _Point_ of the OS SACRUM, and that _Fleshy Part_ lying about it, is to be _thrust back_ and _dilated_, so that the _Passage_ may be sufficiently opened for the INFANT to pass through; which patent _Dilatation_ is to be promoted by _pressing_ also _back_ the OS COCCYGIS. Now these Things, in short, may be all done cautiously without creating any intense _Pain_, or the least Damage; and _thus_ the obstructed _Passage_ being clear’d and open’d, the BIRTH advances regularly of Course, and the _CHILD_ is born with the greatest _Ease_, in the Space of a few Minutes: Whereas otherways (without the Use of these _Means_) both its _Own_ and the MOTHER’s _Destiny_ may be precarious or uncertain after some _Days_ LABOUR. THUS it is certain, that by assisting a _Woman_ in LABOUR seasonably and skilfully, her _PAINS_ are happily excited and encreased; whereas, on the contrary, by _imprudent Treatment_ they unhappily cease and vanish, to her great Prejudice. Moreover, daily _Experience_ teaches us, that the very _different_ TOUCHING of Things, occasions different _Sensations_; and from thence it is, that the _dextrous MIDWIFE_ knows by _one_ way of TOUCHING, how to promote the _PAINS_ of _Labour_; and by _another_, how to retard or put them off according as the Necessity of the _Case_ requires; which hereafter will appear more at large.