De practyk der vroed'meesters en vroed'vrouwen, Of de wyse van een vrouw' te helpen in haar kindbaren. Be...

except for differences, such as frequent bloodletting and enemas, alongside some other matters that we believe align more with the French national character and way of doing things than with our own. However, we are of the same opinion as him, that the use of a Strik noose/sling, regarding the delivery of a child, can do service if used prudently from time to time: just as the same has been used by our Author, and also by us, and we consider, alongside him, that the same could be very harmful to Mother and Child if one were to use them imprudently and commit violence with them, as he has pointed out in the 35th Observation and elsewhere.

These are, benevolent Reader, the principal matters of which we deemed it necessary to say something beforehand, from which you will be able to judge whether or not the desire to serve our Fatherland and the public, rather than our own gain and profit, has moved us to translate this Book into the Dutch Language and bring it to light, and thereby to present this Art, which also pertains to Surgery, to others; showing them how many deliveries can and should occur, so that the same, becoming more and more known here in this Land, may

be for the benefit of many people. And if we can see and perceive that it is received with as willing and good-natured a spirit as it is shared by us, it will give us cause to bring more useful matters regarding this Practice, which have already been communicated to us, alongside other Observations from our own experience, to light. Fare well, Polite Reader, read with an impartial judgment, and use everything for the benefit of your neighbor.

The third method is indeed the safest, and is also performed by the Hand, but without the fear of Instruments; however, the correct handling is known to few, although it is much in vogue in France: but nowhere in the world, to my knowledge, is it performed better than in Ireland, by the incomparable and famous Doctor Paulus Chamberlen, whose fame I cannot extol highly enough in this work, just as in all other exercises regarding the Medical Art: his Father and two Brothers practice that Art in England with no less success than he; besides that Family, no one is known to me in England who has such a Practice: And whether it is done as happily and skillfully in France, although they practice it daily within Paris, both in the City and in the Hospital, I may with right doubt.