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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

FROM all which, it evidently appears, how justly _Galen_ says[234], that
the _Hysterick Passion_ (under one Appellation) comprehends innumerable
various SYMPTOMS: Even so _many_, that at least (I think) they cannot be
possibly comprehended in this _Volume_, which extorts another _Apology_
from me in this Place; namely and plainly, that as I have no Ambition to
be accounted any extraordinary PERSON of great _Learning_ or _Reading_;
so I far less desire to set up or give my self out for ONE of _Universal
Practice_ or _Experience_: And as at the _Beginning_, I only design’d
this BOOK for the immediate _Service_ of MIDWIVES, and the common Good
of _WOMEN_ and their _CHILDREN_, the _Poor_, I mean in general, as well
as the _Rich_; So I am yet resolv’d, rather, to stifle or restrain my
_Inclinations_ for the present time, and suppress what might be
otherways pertinently added on these _Subjects_, than to put it out of
the reach of the _Purchase_ of either of _THOSE_. I say, for these
reasons, I shall not undertake at this time to enter upon every
particular _Head_ or _Branch_ of the _HYSTERICKS_; only that I may not
be censur’d as _Churlish_ or _Peevish_ to the more delicate _LADIES_,
and tenderly constituted _Women_, who always labour and suffer most
under these _Distempers_, I shall however yet endeavour to discuss
particularly the most _dangerous_, as well as the most _common Case_,
belonging to this general TOPICK; and not only so, but, according to my
_Ability_, I shall also endeavour in _it_, if possible in a few words,
to include and comprehend all the rest of these _Female Indispositions_:
And _that_ to the _Purpose_, and under the _Title_, following, _viz._——




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                               CHAP. III.
                  _Of the Strangulation of the_ WOMB.


THE preceding _Chapter_ contains a general Account of the sundry various
_Hysterick Passions_, together with their respective SYMPTOMS, as they
affect the chief and Principal _Parts_ of the BODY; whence I might
descend to a great _Variety_ of _particulars_; but as neither my present
_Time_ nor _Design_ will permit my entring upon _These_ in this place, I
shall content my self with treating of _This_ _ONE_; which as it is the
chief and most dangerous of all the _Uterine Affections_, so ’tis the
most _Universal_ and _Common_.

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