my uncle Toby .—Sir, replied Dr. Slop , it would astonish you to know what improvements we have made of late years in all branches of obstetrical knowledge, but particularly in that one single point of the safe and expeditious extraction of the fœtus ,⸺which has received such lights, that, for my part (holding up his hands) I declare I wonder how the world has⸺I wish, quoth my uncle Toby , you had seen what prodigious armies we had in Flanders .
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