THIS I think is past all _Contradiction_, when we consider, how some _Practisers_ sacrifice the INFANT, first by _opening_, and (as they call it) _braining_ the HEAD, and then by drawing it forth with their _Instrument_ call’d _FORCEPS_: How _others_ also esteem themselves _Masters_ of the greatest _ARCANUM_, boasting that they can, without so much as _braining_ the _HEAD_, extract the _INFANT_ by their _Tool_ call’d an _EDUCTOR_: How a _Third Set_ again pretending themselves to be the only _genuine Sons_ of APOLLO, come slily to correct the _Rest_, by fixing only a couple of HOOKS in the _Eyes_, _Ears_, or somewhere else in the Child’s _HEAD_; by which means they as wretchedly produce the _innocent_ dead _Babe_ as any of the _others_: For it can no more be suppos’d to _survive_ this cruel _Treatment_, than the other mentioned _Barbarities_; not to speak of the _Anguish_ and _Perplexity_ over and above, besides the real Danger all the while brought upon the _distressed Mother_. UPON this grand Affair of Life and Death, the Desidious and Capricious _MIDWIFE_ cries at length, GOD knows I have taken all the _Pains_ and Care I could, but to no _Purpose_, for this or that trifling _Reason_, falsely alledged. The _SURGEON_ (if he don’t pretend the _CHILD_ to be already _Dead_) says, Come, it is better to dispense with _one Life_ than _Two_; _One must go_, &c. In consequence of which, he prepares his _FORCEPS_, _EDUCTOR_, _KNIVES_, _HOOKS_, &c. to draw out the _INFANT Dead_, or _Alive_, _Whole_ or in _Pieces_, by such disingenuous and barbarous _Means_ to save the _MOTHER_. Thus behold the excellent _Art_ of _MIDWIFERY_ ignorantly perverted! O Deplorable Woman! O Miserable Babe! How much abused! when there is no _other Mean_ left to rescue the tender _Life_ of the poor _Mother_, but by the massacrous _Death_ of her dearest _CHILD_! This _Case_ indeed would be very _Melancholy_, but Glory be to _GOD_ who has neither left the _One_ nor the _Other_ to perish at this untimely or inhuman Rate, excepting it be by _Ignorance_, or _Wilfulness_, &c. as aforesaid: No, on the contrary he has provided an _EXPEDIENT_ for every _Extremity_, and a _REMEDY_ for every _Malady_, as in the present _Case_ will appear farther by what follows, _Viz._——