The trial of a cause between Richard Maddox, gent., plaintiff, and Dr. M---y, defendant, physician, and man-midwife

before Sir Michael Foster, knt., one of the justices of the King's-Bench, at Guildhall, London, March 2, 1754, by a special jury : in an action upon the case, brought by the plaintiff against the defendant for promising and undertaking, and not performing his office as a man-midwife in the delivery of the wife of Mr. Richard Maddox, the plaintiff : with the opinions of several physicians and man-midwives upon the case, as given in evidence upon the trial : whereupon the jury thought proper to give 1000l. damage to the plaintiff : to which will be added, some extraordinary cases in midwifry, extracted from the writings of that very eminent physician and man-midwife, Dr. Deventer, of Leyden