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In fine, your famous Fraternities being universally celebrated for encouraging of Learning and promoting Ingenuity, You are still the more highly entitled to my Endeavours in both respects; and I my self in all points of Humanity the more secure of your candid Interpretation. The undertaking then being yours by Birth, it has a Natural Claim to your Care; And it being the Duty of Men to provide for their Off-Spring, it has a peculiar Right to your Patronage. Wherefore, with all due Deference and becoming Submission to your wiser Judgments, I lay the Dedication as well as the Work it self entirely at your Feet, in Hopes of your courteous Reception and benign Tutelage both at Home and Abroad: Upon which (in short) I beg Leave to Subscribe my self, with profound Veneration,
Your Eminent Societies,
Most Faithful, and
Most Obedient, Servant
John Maubray.
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As the Study of Physick has differ’d in every Age, according to the prevailing Opinions and Ambiguous Determinations of Philosophers, so the Practice of Midwifery has also varied, according to the Judicious Experiments and successful Operations of Professors; until of late Years, by the many happy Discoveries and strict Inquiries made into the Secrets of Nature, and Natural Causes, these Healing and obstetricious Arts are so much improv’d and advanc’d, that, they now seem to be arriv’d at their very Height of Perfection: Insomuch that both the one and the other stand this Day upon as sure a Foundation, and as certain Principles, as most other Sciences do, which notwithstanding are not exempted from the Fate of Casualties.