II. IT often happens, by these means, that the _right Arm_ is excluded, and falls down to the _Shoulder_ in the _PASSAGE_, the _INFANT_ being left dry by the unseasonable flowing of the _Waters_: And the _Arm_ being thus thrust forwards into the _PASSAGE_, the _Head_ is more and more forced-back _upwards_, so that the _Neck_ of Consequence is so bent, that it may easily break; and the _Crown_ of the _HEAD_ (falling against the _Spine_ of the _PUBIS_ or _COXENDICIS_) is so pressed upon it by the violent _Pains_, that the _BRAIN_ may be readily affringed, and consequently the _INFANT_ die before _BIRTH_. III. THE most deplorable _Condition_ of all is when, after all _Pains_ and _Labours_ suffered in vain, the MOTHER herself expires, without bringing forth her _Child_; as it too often happens, that after a long continued and miserable _Torment_, the BIRTH is not a Jot advanced, whereby of course the wretched _Woman_ must undoubtedly _yield up the Ghost_ for want of effectual _Help_. I say for want of _Help_, because the _Help_ of such MIDWIVES as are ignorant of the various _Postures_ of the WOMB, and the _Method_ of correcting them; and of such as do not thorowly understand the TOUCH, but place all their Hopes in _Nature_ and _Divine Mercy_; is as nothing, and of no Effect upon this _critical Occasion_: Since the audacious _Ignorance_ of such Creatures serves only to tempt GOD and his _Providence_. HAVING thus defin’d and laid down the fatal Inconveniences of this _Preternatural Situation_, I come now to shew People concern’d how to correct it and dispatch a happy _BIRTH_: In order to which, the _præliminary Articles_ are the _MIDWIFE’S_ indefatigable _Industry_, and accurate _Attention_ to the Circumstances of Things. THEN supposing an _INFANT_ to be brought forth _HEAD foremost_; the _Woman_ is to be placed with the upper part of her Body a little elevated, the _MIDWIFE_ then finding (by the TOUCH) the _Orifice_ to be but moderately press’d upon the _Left OS PUBIS_, or _COXENDICIS_; in this _Case_, she is to be laid down full upon the _right Side_ a little obliquely, that the WOMB may fall back by its own Weight, and not relapse against those _Bones_.