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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

MOREOVER again, as the _Days_ of the Interval from the _7th_ to the
_14th_, have but small _Power_ in dissolving _acute Diseases_; so
neither have the _4th_ or _5th Months_ (which assimilate _these Days_)
any _Efficacy_ tending to BIRTH. Wherefore if an unlucky _Ejection_ of
the _Foetus_ happens in _these Months_, it can be no otherwise judged
of, than as when _Symptomatical_ (not _Critical_) _Excretions_ fall out
on DAYS not _Decretory_: Hence we (of consequence) may collect, that the
very _First Time_, in which a _legitimate Term_ can be suppos’d to
concur effectually, together with the _Disposition_ and _Strength_ of
the _INFANT_, in case of BIRTH, will be (as _Hippocrates_ has well
observed[141]) about the _182d Day_, or at the _half Year’s End_: Which
(however) he calls a _Septimestrian_ BIRTH, because the _Ancients_
reckon’d their Year by _Lunar Months_, as they did their _Months_ by the
Course of the MOON; whereof 13 with some _Days_ of the _14th Month_
constitute the _Solar Year_: Not that I mean they in the Interim were at
all ignorant of the _Solar Periods_. And however, tho’ this _Number of
182 Days_ make but up _six Solar Months_; yet, as it comprehends _seven
Lunar Months_, and almost constitutes three DECADES of _Lunar Weeks_,
there can be no _Repugnancy_ in that _Wise Man’s Meaning_, whatever some
literal _Interpreters_ may imagine to the contrary.

NOW this _sixth Month_ being the _second Solar Mutation_, in it the WOMB
begins to be more severely oppress’d with the _Weight_ and _Bulk_ of its
Burthen; for now the _INFANT_ has assum’d _Perfection_, and (perhaps)
got _Strength_ sufficient to undergo its _Fatigue_ in LABOUR, and
_Power_ enough to support _Life_, after its BIRTH; especially if
procreated of the more vivid, valid, or excellent SEED; whose powerful
_Faculty_ and vigorous _Quality_ may perhaps have perform’d the Work of
_Formation_ in 30, which otherwise would require 35, or _more Days_: In
this _Case_ (of consequence) the BIRTH will succeed at the
above-mentioned _happy Time_; as appears more amply from what has been
already set forth in SECT. 1. _Chap._ 9.

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