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the violent compression and crush which the head was made to undergo, by the nonsensical method of bringing us into the world by that part foremost.
———This requires explanation.
My father, who dipp'd into all kinds of books, upon looking into Lithopædus Senonesis de Partu difficili,[1] published by
- ↑ The author is here twice mistaken;—for Lithopædus should be wrote thus, Lithopædii Senonensis Icon. The second mistake is, that this Lithopædus is not an author, but a drawing of a petrified child. The account of this, published by Athosius 1580, may be seen at the end of Cordæus's works in Spachius. Mr. Tristram Shandy has been led into this error, either from seeing Lithopædus's name of late in a catalogue of learned writers in Dr. ———, or by mistaking Lithopædus for Trinecavellius,—from the too great similitude of the names.
