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The Female Physician: Containing all the diseases incident to that sex, in virgins, wives, and widows; together with their causes and symptoms, their degrees of danger, and respective methods of prevention and cure: to which is added, the whole art of new improv'd midwifery; comprehending the necessary qualifications of a midwife, and particular directions for laying women, in all cases of difficult and preternatural births; together with the diet and regimen of both the mother and child.Maubray, John

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The Female Physician: Containing all the diseases incident to that sex, in virgins, wives, and widows; together with their causes and symptoms, their degrees of danger, and respective methods of prevention and cure: to which is added, the whole art of new improv'd midwifery; comprehending the necessary qualifications of a midwife, and particular directions for laying women, in all cases of difficult and preternatural births; together with the diet and regimen of both the mother and child.

Name: The Female Physician: Containing all the diseases incident to that sex, in virgins, wives, and widows; together with their causes and symptoms, their degrees of danger, and respective methods of prevention and cure: to which is added, the whole art of new improv'd midwifery; comprehending the necessary qualifications of a midwife, and particular directions for laying women, in all cases of difficult and preternatural births; together with the diet and regimen of both the mother and child.
Author: Maubray, John

Maubray, John

Midwifery -- Early works to 1800; Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800

Chap.  1. _Of Conception._                             Page          70
        2. _Of the Signs of Conception._                              72
        3. _Of the Diet and Regimen of the Pregnant Woman._           74
        4. _Of the Symptoms of the first three Months._               77
        5. _Of Vomitings, or Nauseating._                             79
        6. _Of Fastidy, or Loathing._                                 80
        7. _Of the Pica or Longing._                                  81
        8. _Of Cholicks and Gripes._                                  84
        9. _Of a Diarrhea, or Looseness._                             86
       10. _Of the Tooth-Ach._                                        85
       11. _Of the Head-Ach._                                         87
       12. _Of the Megrim, or Vertigo._                               88
       13. _Of the Symptoms of the Middle Three Months._              92
       14. _Of Coughs._                                               93
       15. _Of Heart-Beatings and Swooning-Fits._                     94
       16. _Of Watchings._                                            95
       17. _Of Pains in the Hips, Loins, &c._                         96
       18. _Of Hæmorrhagies, or Bleedings._                           97
       19. _Of Fluxes of Blood._                                      98
       20. _Of the Symptoms of the last three Months._               101
       21. _Of Dysuries, Ischuries, and Stranguries._                102
       22. _Of Costiveness._                                         103
       23. _Of Tenesms._                                             105
       24. _Of the Varices, or Vein-Tumours._                        106
       25. _Of the Inflations and Tumours of the Legs._              107
       26. _Of Fissures, or Chops of the Belly._                     108
       27. _Of Water-Fluxes._                                        109
       28. _Of Acute Diseases incident to the Child-Bearing
             Woman._                                                 110
       29. _Of the Debility and Weakness of the Fœtus._              115
       30. _Of Abortion._                                            116
       31. _Of a Legitimate Birth._                                  131
       32. _Of an Illegitimate Birth._                               134
       33. _Of a Seven-Months Birth._                                135
       34. _Of an Eight-Months Birth._                               140
       35. _Of a Nine-Months Birth._                                 142
       36. _Of a Ten-Months Birth._                                  144
       37. _Of an Eleven-Months, and all posterior Births._          147
       38. _Of the Reasons why one Number of Months, Weeks and
             Days, is more Auspicious to Birth than another._        150
       39. _Of the Diet and Regimen of the Woman, before and

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