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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

III. WHEN the _PAINS_ are not _Natural_ or _Genuine_; but _Spurious_,
_Faint_ and _Languid_; or _Shifting_ and _Tergiversant_; such are to be
assuaged by proper _Lenitives_ and _Anodynes_; which being regularly
done, the _Genuine Pains_ may be excited by proper _Clysters_, and
divers other Means. But I would advise none to a _Profuse Use_ of
_MEDICINES_ in such _Cases_, since I well know that many a WOMAN has
lost her _Life_ by using _dolorifick Medicines_, prescribed by imprudent
_MIDWIVES_, without considering, or so much as knowing the true
Circumstances of the _Condition_: Whereas in most _Cases_, by the
ingenious _Motion_ of an _Experienc’d Hand_ only, the PAINS may be
sufficiently awaken’d, and the BIRTH safely promoted.

IV. WHEN the _Difficulty_ proceeds from the _Debility_ of the WOMB, or
its _Expulsive Faculty_, not being able or capable to _Exclude_ the
_INFANT_, because of a more strong and valid _Retentive Power_: In this
_Condition_, if there be no evident _External Cause_ to be obviated, it
depends chiefly upon the _Subtile Hand_ of the _MIDWIFE_, to assist the
WOMB in its _Function_; and otherways the _PATIENT_ is only to be
treated as in the _Case_ of the _weak_ and _tender_ WOMAN
above-mentioned.

V. WHEN the WOMAN is taken with any _Acute Disease_, the _BIRTH_ is to
be prompted by all safe _Means_; and if a _Natural DELIVERY_ does not
presently succeed, an _Artificial_ one must (without Loss of _Time_) be
undertaken. As in the _Case_ of immoderate and continual _Floodings_,
with concomitant _Convulsions_, which always proceed from the Separation
of the _SECUNDINE_ (either in whole or in part) from the WOMB, and
happen many different ways, as already mentioned at large[165].

IN these _Cases_, especially if the SECUNDINE is found (by the TOUCH) at
the _Orifice_, there is no Hope of _Stopping_ them by any other _Means_,
than by _delivering_ the WOMAN; which now the _sooner_ done, the
_better_ (for saving two _Lives_) and _that_ whether at full time of
_Reckoning_ or not. But this _Operation_, I conceive, is to be most
discreetly _Undertaken_ in the manner following, _viz._

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