Chapter III: AFTER having thoroughly searched on all Sides, and thus duly

cleans’d the WOMB, by continuing my _Hand_ in it, until it contracts about that _Hand_, first _above_ towards the _Bottom_, and then _below_ towards the _Orifice_, which happens very quickly: I find myself _then_, by great Experience, able to rectify all _Oblique_ and _Preternatural Situations_ of the WOMB; as in _Case_ of a PROLAPSUS, (or _Falling down_) I can hereby move it carefully _Up_ again: If it lies too much _Backwards_, by elevating it while it gradually contracts, I can easily bring it _Forwards_, to its _Natural Position_: If it hangs too much _Forwards_, I can quickly reduce it _Backwards_: If it tends to _either Side_, I can directly move it to its Center. And thus, in short, I hope I may be allow’d gently and gradually to restore the WOMB to its _Natural Place_ and _Posture_, how _Preternaturally_ and _Obliquely_ soever its _Situation_ may happen to be disorder’d.

NOW This being so successfully done, I can, in fine, assure and secure any _Lying-in-Woman_, that her WOMB is both duly _purg’d_, and naturally _shut_ again as it ought to be; which I take to be the greatest _Satisfaction_ the CHILD-BED-WOMAN can conceive in her Condition. Whereas,