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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

NOW, as to the FIRST of _These_ then, the _Attraction_, or the
_attractive Faculty_, may fail in its Duty _two ways_, viz. either
because of its own _Debility_; or because of some præternatural
_Impediment_. The _Debility_ or _Imbecility_ of this Faculty may proceed
either from a _Defect of Spirits_ in the _Seminal Vessels_; or from
either of the _Intemperatures_ of the WOMB, whether _Natural_ or
_Adventitious_: And _Impediments_ may happen in _Attraction_ many
different ways, such as by a læs’d or extinct _Venereal Appetite_; by
the _Woman’s Aversion_ or _Indifference_ to her _MATE_; by the perverse
_Affections_ of the Mind, such as _Melancholy_, _Grief_, _Anger_,
_Fear_, &c. by _Causes_ of the VAGINA, or _Orifice_ of the WOMB; by a
_Coalescence_, _Ulcer_, _Membrane_, _Carnous_ or _Scirrhous Substance_,
or any other kind of _Tumours_; as also by a _Constriction_,
_Distortion_, or _Compression_ of the _ORIFICE_; or at last by too much
FAT, _&c._[223]

SECONDLY, the _Retentive Faculty_ may come short of its Duty _three
different ways_; namely, either because of its own _Imbecillity_, or
because of some _Præternatural Impediments_; or because of the _Object_
it self. The _Imbecillity_ or _Impotency_ of this Faculty may proceed
either from the _Intemperature_ of the WOMB; or from the Abundance of
some slimy _Mucous Humour_ in the same: And its _Impediments_ may happen
from a _Prolapsus_, an _Inflammation_, an immoderate _Flux_, the
_Whites_, a _Gonorrhæa_, _Worms_, _Scirrhous_, or other _Tumours_,
_Ulcers_, or the _Cicatrix_ of an old _Sore_ in the Body of the WOMB; as
also from the Amplitude or Laxity of the ORIFICE, whether _Natural_ or
_Adventitious_: Which _Accident_ frequently happens even to
_Child-bearing Women_, sometimes by an ABORTION, sometimes by a
difficult BIRTH, and sometimes also by the rude _Usage_ of an ignorant
MIDWIFE, that they can _never more Conceive_, until they be duly
_Cured_: Again, the _Cause_ may be in the OBJECT, or SEED it self; when
it is either _impure_, _acrid_, _vitious_, and disagreeable to the WOMB;
or deprived of its natural _Heat_ and _Spirits_.

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