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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. — John Shaqi

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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

about the Time of Birth._                               159
       40. _Of the Natural Causes of Birth, and Pains of Labour._    161
       41. _Of the Causes of a sooner, or later Birth._              163

                                SECT. IV.

 Chap.  1. _Of Midwifery._                                           167
        2. _Of the Qualifications of the ordinary Midwife._          171
        3. _Of the Theoretical and Practical Knowledge of the
             Midwife._                                               174
        4. _Of the Qualifications of the Extraordinary Midwife._     178
        5. _Of the External Parts of Generation._                    183
        6. _Of the Internal Parts of Generation._                    186
        7. _Of the Pelvis._                                          190
        8. _Of the Bones of the Pelvis._                             191
        9. _Of the Womb._                                            196
       10. _Of the Extensive Faculty of the Womb._                   199
       11. _Of the Substantial Density of the Womb._                 200
       12. _Of the various Local Motion of the Womb._                203
       13. _Of the oblique Situation of the Womb._                   204
       14. _Of Touching or Handling the Woman._                      207
       15. _Of the various Uses and Advantages of the Touch._        208
       16. _Of the Genuine and Spurious Labour-Pains._               213
       17. _Of the True Method of Laying the Woman._                 216
       18. _Of the Method of Extracting the Secundine, &c._          220

                                SECT. V.

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