THE MASTER-PIECE. PAGE The Matrimonial State considered 9 CHAP. I. —False Steps in Matrimonial Alliances 10 „ II. —The original appointment of Marriage 14 „ III. —The happy state of Matrimony 20 „ IV. —Precautionary Hints 29 „ V. —The Vagaries of Nature in the birth of Monsters 34 „ VI. —Of the Womb in general 41 „ VII. —Of the retention of the Terms 43 „ VIII. —Of the overflowing of the Terms 49 „ IX. —Of the Weeping of the Womb 53 „ X. —Of the false Terms, or Whites 54 „ XI. —Of the Suffocation of the Mother 57 „ XII. —Falling of the Womb 62 „ XIII. —Of the Inflammation of the Womb 64 „ XIV. —Of the Schirrosity or Hardness of the Womb 66 „ XV. —Of the Dropsy of the Womb 68 „ XVI. —Of Moles and False Conceptions 70 „ XVII. —Of Conception, and how a woman may know whether she has conceived or not, and whether male or female 74 „ XVIII. —Of untimely Births 76 „ XIX. —Directions for Pregnant Women 77 „ XX. —Directions to be observed by women at the time of their falling in labour 80 „ XXI. —In cases of extremity, what ought to be done 82 THE MIDWIFE. CHAPTER I. SECT. I. Of the Womb 85 SECT. II. Of the Difference between Ancient and Modern Physicians, touching the Woman’s contributing Seed for the formation of the Child 90 CHAPTER II. SECT. I. What Conception is 93 SECT. II. How a Woman ought to order herself after Conception ib. CHAPTER III. SECT. I. Of the Parts proper to a Child in the Womb. How it is formed there, and the Manner of its Situation therein 104 Of the Secundine, or After-Birth 107 SECT. II. Of the Formation of the Child in the Womb 109 SECT. III. Of the manner of the Child’s lying in the Womb 110