IN order to this _Second Point_, the _Woman_ being commodiously placed, the _MIDWIFE_ is to pass up her _Hand_ into the _VAGINA_, and dispose the _Orifice_ of the WOMB to open, which is now sooner done than if the HEAD came _first_: _This_ being done dextrously, she is to put first _one_ or _two Fingers_, then _all_ of them successively into the _Aperture_; and when that is sufficiently enlarged, she is to penetrate into the WOMB, and either break the _MEMBRANE_, or wait its _spontaneous Breaking_, as she judges best by occurring _Circumstances_. In the next place, she is to look for and find the _FEET_; and, the _TOES_ being always turn’d towards the RECTUM, they are to be forthwith brought into the PASSAGE: proceeding still farther in the due and regular _Method_ of extracting the CHILD, as already taught[178] and dilucidated. II. WE will suppose moreover, that the INFANT is _ill-seated_, and presents itself _preternaturally_ with any of the aforementioned _Members first_, in a WOMB hanging _obliquely to either Side_. In this _Case_, I would sincerely advise the _MIDWIFE_, to lose no Time in opening the WOMB, breaking the MEMBRANE, turning the CHILD, and extracting it by the FEET: Because in this _Posture_ of both the _BIRTH_ and the _WOMB_, Experience has taught me that nothing can be safer and less dangerous than this _Method_, when ingeniously and presently perform’d with Dexterity. IT is true indeed it may be _objected_, that I dissent in _this Matter_, from most (if not from all) _Authors_: To which I _answer_, in short, that _Those_ from whom I do differ, were never acquainted with this _complicated preternatural Condition_, but always supposed the _WOMB_ to continue in its proper Place, never dreaming of its various _Motion_, nor suspecting its _oblique Situation_; erroneously imagining all _preternatural BIRTHS_ to proceed merely from the ill _Version_ of the INFANT: In which _Circumstance_ however, when it happens so, I confess they are so far in the right, that the HEAD is to be _first_ brought into the PASSAGE, and the CHILD excluded by it with all possible Expedition.