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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 Birth._                                               227
        2. _Of Natural Births._                                      230
        3. _Of Natural Difficult Births._                            231
        4. _Of Difficult Births, proceeding from External
             Causes._                                                233
        5. _Of Difficult Births, proceeding from Causes of the
             Mother._                                                235
        6. _Of Difficult Births, proceeding from Causes of the
             Infant._                                                239
        7. _Of Difficult Births, proceeding from Causes of the
             Membranes._                                             241
        8. _Of Difficult Births, proceeding from the Causes of
             the Pelvis._                                            242
        9. _Of Difficult Births, proceeding from Causes of the
             Bones of the Pelvis._                                   245
       10. _Of Difficult Births, proceeding from Causes of the
             Bladder and Rectum._                                    250
       11. _Of Difficult Births, proceeding from the Causes of
             the Vagina._                                            252
       12. _Of Preternatural Births._                                253
       13. _Of Preternatural Births, by the Face’s being turn’d
             upwards; or bent forwards, and the Crown backwards._    257
       14. _Of Preternatural Births, by the Hand, Elbow,
             Shoulder, Knees, or Buttocks, presenting first._        259
       15. _Of Preternatural Births, by the Breast, Belly, or
             Back presenting first; and the Infants, lying
             transverse._                                            261
       16. _Of Preternatural Births, by the Feet presenting
             first._                                                 264
       17. _Of Preternatural Births, by Two, or more Infants
             presenting themselves ill-turn’d._                      266
       18. _Of Preternatural Births, proceeding from Causes of
             the Womb._                                              268
       19. _Of Preternatural Births, from the Womb’s inclining
             Forwards._                                              270
       20. _Of Preternatural Births, from the Womb’s inclining
             backwards._                                             282
       21. _Of Preternatural Births, from the Womb’s inclining to
             either Side._                                           287
       22. _Of Preternatural Births, proceeding from the Median
             oblique Situations of the Womb._                        291
       23. _Of Preternatural Births, proceeding from complicated
             Causes, of both the Infant and the Womb._               294
       24. _Of Preternatural Births, proceeding from the

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