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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

HOWEVER, I could produce innumerable _Instances_ of most Learned and
Ingenious _Men_ to support my above-mentioned _Opinion_; but I shall
content myself now with ONE, who (I think) is of sufficient Authority:
For hearing lately that Mr. _Mauriceau_’s mention’d Book (which I had
only read before in its _Original French_) was translated by Dr.
_Chamberlain_, I doubted not but I should fully discover that Eminent
TRANSLATOR’S _Sentiment_ upon this single _Point_; whereupon this most
famous _Physician_ and _Boethogynist_ marks by way of Observation or a
_Bene Notandum_, that his _Charity_ for his _Author_ makes him believe
that _French-Women_ differ in this _Point_ from _Our English_, with whom
it is apparently otherwise order’d. And in the farther Explication of
his _Author’s Opinion_ on this _Head_, he adds, That _Experience_ will
convince any inquisitive Person of the _Contrary_.

TO which I reply, in short, with all due Submission, that the
_French-Women_ do not differ one Jot in this respect from _Ours_, nor
_Ours_ from any _Others_: Which (no doubt) the worthy _Doctor_ was very
sensible of, notwithstanding his great _Complaisance_ to his _Author_.




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                               CHAP. XII.
               _Of the various Local Motion of the WOMB._


ALTHOUGH the _Ligaments_ are fixed to the _WOMB_ on each side, under the
_Tubes_, near the _Bottom_, on purpose to keep it duly in the _Middle_,
from falling to either _Side_; yet we may easily perceive, FIRST, That
the _Pregnant WOMB_, as it dilates and extends itself most (in the
_Bottom_) above the _Ligaments_, so it rises _Highest_ and becomes
_Heaviest_ in that Part; by which means it cannot always be contained in
the _narrow Compass_ of the PELVIS, and the _Larger_ the _INFANT_ is,
the _Higher_ the _WOMB_ rises (above the _Ligaments_) in the BELLY.
Insomuch that when the _Cavity_ of the PELVIS is not sufficient to
contain a large _WOMB_, fill’d with _One_ or _more_ well-grown
_INFANTS_, together with the _Secundines_ and _Humours_, it must (of
necessity) ascend into the _Cavity_ of the BELLY; as is evident from
_Chap. 10_.

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