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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

THE too copious and long lasting, or immoderate FLUX of the _Child-Bed
Purgations_, is no less _Preternatural_, than the former _Case_ of their
being altogether _suppressed_, or in part _diminished_. Tho’ it is
however to be observ’d, that there can be no certain _Quantity_ of
flowing BLOOD, nor any certain _Time of Duration_ of this FLUX prefix’d
or determined to the _Puerperial Woman_, as aforesaid: Wherefore the
_Excess_ of this _Evacuation_ is best known by the _Loss of Strength_,
_sinking of the_ SPIRITS, and the great _Uneasiness_ of the PATIENT.

THE _Cause_ of this _Distemper_ is, either _1st_, a too great _Plenty_
of the abounding BLOOD; or _2dly_, its _Tenuity_ and _Acrimony_
stimulating Nature to _Excretion_; or _3dly_, too great an _Apertion_ of
the _Uterine Vessels_; or _4thly_ and lastly, a violent _Extraction_ of
the _AFTER-BIRTH_: For the _Flux of the LOCHIA_ proceeding meerly from
the _Separation_ of the PLACENTA from the WOMB, the more strong and
violent this _Separation_ or _Divulsion_ is, the more the _Vessels_ in
the _Concave Part_ of the WOMB are torn or dilacerated; and so being
either too much _opened_, or too difficult to _reconsolidate_, they
discharge BLOOD immoderately.

HENCE, I say, this immoderate _FLOODING_, is not only known by the great
_Quantities_ of _BLOOD_ voided, by its _Continuance_, or by coming away
in _Clods_, and much at a time; but also by the _Loss of Strength_, and
a _Defect_ of _SPIRITS_; upon which follows a low, debilitated and
frequent _PULSE_; Loathing of _VICTUALS_; _PAINS_ in the
_Hypochondriacks_, with a _Twisting_ of the _GUTS_, and _Griping_ of the
_BELLY_; a _Dimness_ of _SIGHT_; a _Hissing_ of the _EARS_; and at last
_Swoonings_ or _Convulsions_, proceeding from the _Depauperation_ of the
_BLOOD_: Which after an immoderate _FLUX_ always disorders the
_SPIRITS_, because when the MASS of it is much lessened, it cannot keep
its due _Mixture_ and _Disposition_.

IN this _Case_ the true PROGNOSTICK is, that, if all immoderate
_Hæmorrhagies_ are dangerous; because by them, the _Treasure_ of _LIFE_
(the _natural Heat_) is exhausted: _Then_, without Controversy, the
immoderate _Flux_ of the LOCHIA, whether after LABOUR, or after a
_MISCARRIAGE_, is full of _Danger_; as coming upon the _PATIENT_ at a
most unseasonable time, when her _Strength_ is already spent.

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