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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 yet it may be again _objected_, that I have already prescribed
another _Method_ in _Chap._ 21; _viz._ of bringing the _Orifice_
together with the HEAD into the PELVIS, and promoting the _BIRTH_ in
that Manner: To this I _answer_, that my _Reason_ for so doing, was not
only to convince some People, that I know _their Method_ as well as _my
own_; but also to whet or assist the _Judgment_ of such good _MIDWIVES_
as cannot forsake their own old _By-Paths_; Not that I ever design’d to
recommend _it_ to any, tho’ I must however acknowledge, that sometimes
it may effect the desirable _Ends_; but according to the _Rules_ of
irrefragable _Truth_, and sound Judgment, we find that, in this
_Position_ of the WOMB, let the _BIRTH_ offer itself as it will, the
only laudable _Method_ is without Loss of Time to extract the INFANT,
and deliver the _Woman_ as above-directed.

III. I observe upon the whole, that as the immediate present _Case_ is
applicable to either (_right_ or _left_) _Side_; so what is said of the
foregoing _Condition_, with respect to the WOMB’s _inclining forwards_,
may be easily apply’d to the _Case_ of its _tending backwards_: Only
with this considerable Difference, that the _oblique forward Posture_ of
the WOMB, is the most commodious of the _Four_ mentioned _Extremes_, and
consequently admits of a more easy _Exclusion_ of the _BIRTH_ by the
_Head_, than any of the rest mentioned.

NOT but that either of these grand or complicated _preternatural BIRTHS_
imply and prognosticate imminent Danger to the _MOTHER_, or the _CHILD_,
or _Both_; as well as incredible _Labour_ and _Fatigue_ to the faithful
_MIDWIFE_; who, in such _Cases_, can less distinctly feel, less
commodiously handle, and more difficultly come at the Matter, so as to
dispose the _INFANT_’S _Members_ for _Attraction_, than in any other
_Condition_ of _BIRTH_: Hence it is, in short, that so many _MIDWIVES_
are liable to the most egregious Mistakes, and unaccountable Deceptions
upon these unlucky Occasions. But——

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