II. I would put my _Right Hand_ up along the _Belly_ to either THIGH, or KNEE, having at the same time a thin _Bandage_ doubled and dipp’d in _Oil_, upon my _Fingers’ Ends_, in order to be put about the KNEE, that I may attract it gently thereby; which I would draw out again by the _Right Hand_, whilst my _Left_ holds the Ends of the _Bandage_, that they may not move out of their Place: Then I would take the Extremities of the _Bandage_ in my _Right Hand_, attracting it softly thereby, whilst I pass up my _Left_ into the WOMB, to thrust the _CHILD_’s _Belly upwards_. By which ingenious and regular Means, I think, Dr. _Daventer_ first moved the _upper Part_ of the BODY _upwards_, and the FEET _downwards_, because the KNEES are thereby brought nearer to the _Orifice_. Now these, in short, are the only safe, and proper _Methods_ to be taken in this present _Case_, or nice Conjuncture; because, by all _other_ inconsiderate and temerarious _Means_, the _INFANT_’s LOINS may be _twisted_, its HIPS or KNEES _disjointed_, its FEET _lamed_, and itself at last quite lost or destroy’d. IN like manner it happens not very seldom, that the _INFANT_ comes with its BACK _forwards_ into the _Passage_; and in this _Posture_ the NAVEL-STRING falls commonly down _there_, so that besides _itself_, nothing else is to be felt by the TOUCH: In this _Case_, the MIDWIFE is to observe well the FLOODING; immediately upon which, _she_ is to seek for the FEET, which are more easily come at than the _HEAD_, tho’ the same is even also a very difficult TASK, by reason that the _CHILD_’s _Back_ takes up the whole Space of _Room_; which, notwithstanding, must be cautiously done, and the _INFANT_ discreetly extracted by _them_. BUT again sometimes, the _BIRTH_ lies also _Transverse_, or a-cross the WOMB; in which dangerous _Case_, I confess the _MIDWIFE_ cannot well perceive, so as to distinguish Matters by the _Touch_, before _Flooding_: Because the _INFANT_ (swimming in the _Waters_) is as yet seated high, and then moving its HANDS and FEET variously, _she_ sometimes feels _one_, and sometimes _another Member_ at the _Orifice_; or, one Moment she finds _Something_, and another _Nothing_ at all there. However, in fine, _she_ may perceive the _Humours_ most commonly compressed into an _acuminated_ or _oblong Form_.