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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

UPON which happy Occasion, I was the first Time fully satisfy’d, and
convinc’d, as to the due Proportion and Distinction of the _Four
controverted Terms_; _viz._ that, by how much the _latter Part_ of the
TENTH MONTH is preferable to the _Beginning_ of the NINTH; by so much is
the _Beginning_ of the ELEVENTH, preferable to any _BIRTH_[130]
happening in the _latter Part_ of the SEVENTH MONTH: So that, upon the
whole Matter, I can find no plausible Reason why All _Those_ may not be
accounted _Legitimate terms_ of Time in _Child-Bearing_, as well as the
_latter Part_ of the NINTH, and _Beginning_ of the TENTH MONTH.

WHICH probable Opinion we may the more readily agree to, and acquiesce
in; especially because (if what has been said of the rest of the
PLANETS, in the respective _Chapters_ of _This_ and the _First SECTION_,
be true) the SUN in this ELEVENTH MONTH returns to take care of the
INFANT (yet unborn;) by virtue of whose vivacious _Influence_ and
beneficent _Quality_, _BIRTHS_ of this MONTH are accounted no less
_vital_ and _successful_, than any _others_ differently time’d.

THERE are also many _Authors_, over and above, who make mention of
_BIRTHS_, in the _Twelfth_, _Thirteenth_, _Fourteenth_, and _Fifteenth_
MONTH. Yes verily, and there is _one remarkable Instance_, of the
Physical _College_ at _Montpelier_, where a grand _Consultation_ was
held about the Year 1590, in _Favour_ of a certain MARCHIONESS; who
(after some fair _Legitimate BIRTHS_) had _Two_[131] running
successively, the _one_ in the _Eighteenth_, the _other_ in the
_Twentieth_ MONTH: upon which, divers curious _Reasonings_ happened, and
various _Sentiments_ were deliver’d. However, because such _Precedents_
are so very few and uncommon, I shall take up no more _Time_ about them.
Only

AS to what is said in this, and the preceding Chapters, touching the
_Months_, I desire to be understood, as meaning _Solar_, not _Lunar_
Months: By _Solar_ Months, I mean that Space of Time, which the _Sun_
continues in either, or every, _Sign_ of the _Zodiack_, comprehending
thirty Days.

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