BUT that I may farther elucidate the true _State_ of this _Case_, as it becomes me to speak the _Truth_ ingenuously, it is my candid Opinion that, in any _oblique Posture_ of the _WOMB_, it is the safest, quickest, and most convenient _Method_ to extract the INFANT by the FEET, and that presently in the _Beginning_ of the LABOUR, either before or at least presently after FLOODING, as occasion requires. For this very Reason, and to this Purpose, I hope, I may farther justly lay down _one certain Rule_; namely, that all _BIRTHS ill-turn’d_, in a _WOMB ill-seated_, are to be rightly _turn’d_ again, and drawn out by the FEET. Which _Rule_, if duly observed, will, I am positive, save a World of _Women_ and _Children_, that otherwise must inevitably perish; since as for my part, I know no _Situation_ of the INFANT in an _oblique WOMB_, more difficult or dangerous than the HEAD’s _offering itself first_; and _that_ because the _BIRTH_ cannot be then _turned_ without the greatest _Difficulty_ and most extreme _Pains_. THIS, in short, will be readily granted by All, who do consider or conceive that the _WOMB_ (being fixed by _Ligaments_ on both sides) is always more inclinable to _fall Forwards_ or _Backwards_, than to either _Side_, and first most commonly _bends back_ before it comes to any _lateral Posture_; and that from hence of consequence, the _WOMB_ is _distorted_ as well as _obliquely situated_. By reason of which _Distortion_, if the _CHILD_ comes _Head foremost_, it falls down in the PELVIS _obliquely_; and tho’ a judicious _MIDWIFE_ may bring the HEAD directly into the PELVIS, yet the _Shoulders_ following, must needs fall upon the PELVIS _a-cross_, in its narrower Part; whereby of reasonable Consequence the INFANT must be distorted in the _Passage_. NOW in this _Case_, no PAINS, how violent soever, can avail to force forwards the _BIRTH_ so fixed upon these _Bones_; wherefore (I say) when the _WOMB_ is thus _seated_, it is most safe in the _Beginning_ of the _LABOUR_, to open its _Orifice_, break the _Membrane_, turn the _CHILD_, and take it out by the _FEET_; since by the HEAD’s coming now _foremost_, both _Lives_ are at Stake and in great Jeopardy.