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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

HE farther observes that the _Quarter-Day_ of the MOON may fall upon the
_6th_ or _8th_ Day of the DISTEMPER, and consequently _either_ of _these
Days_ may determine it as well as the _SEVENTH_. For (according to Dr.
_Mead_’s excellent Judgment) the _Dissolution_ of a FEVER sometimes
happens _To-day_, which according to the ordinary _Course_ of the
DISTEMPER ought to happen _To-morrow_; or, on the contrary, the _same_
may be procrastinated till _To-morrow_, which might be expected
_To-day_: And _That_ for the various _Reasons_[139] most ingeniously by
him alledg’d and irrefragably established.

IN fine, such _Mutations_ and _Circulations_ of Things as are perfected
and perform’d in a _few Days_, are directed by the _Property_ of the
MOON: whereas such _Changes_ and _Alterations_ as require the
Dissolution and Determination of _Months_, refer only to the
_Government_ of the SUN. Which I would have thus candidly understood,
_viz._

AS from the beginning of the _Month_ to the FULL-MOON are almost _14
Days_, which accomplish half the _Lunar Circuit_, and comprehend two
_Quarter-Changes_; so from the Beginning of _Spring_ to the End of
_Summer_ are six _Months_, which comprehend _two Seasons_ or half of the
Year: And so that _Mediety_ or _Half of the Month_, from _FULL-MOON_, to
the Time of _Occultation_ or _NEW-MOON_, answers to the other _six
Months_, from the beginning of _Autumn_ to the last of _Winter_, which
conclude the other Half of the Year.

FOR as we divide the _Course_ of the _MOON_ by _4 Weeks_, according to
its 4 quarter _Changes_; so we distribute the _Course_ of the _SUN_ into
_4 Stations_, according to the _four Seasons_ of the Year: Hence it is
that all _Times_ of the _Year_ answer in proportion to the different
_Weeks_ of the _Month_, and all _Stations_ of the _SUN_ (in like manner)
to the different _Changes_ of the _MOON_. Wherefore as the _7th Day_,
which is the 4th Part of the _Lunar Month_, determines _acute
Distempers_; so the _Change_ of the _Season_ of the Year dissolves
_Diuturnal Diseases_. The _SPRING_ commonly shakes off any _Malady_
generated in _WINTER_, as the _SUMMER_ does what is begun in the
_SPRING_; and the _AUTUMN_ discusseth any _Affection_ excited in
_SUMMER_, as the _WINTER_ does what happen’d in _AUTUMN_.

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