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.
Maubray, John
Midwifery -- Early works to 1800; Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800
HOWEVER, all _These Things_, I look upon to be merely _trifling_ and
_uncertain_ in this Case; because, supposing the WOMAN _not to breathe_,
as has been hinted; How then can she _expire_ so much from her LUNGS, as
to _move a Feather_, or _infect a Glass_? Or, how can her BREAST have
any such a _Motion_, as to move _Water in a Glass_? Considering well,
what has been already said, that it is only by _internal Transpiration_,
that she draws the _Breath of Life_; which is neither effected by the
_Motion_ of the BREAST, nor the LUNGS; but rather by a certain obscure
and latent _Motion_ of the HEART, and the internal _Arteries_: In such
manner, as some _Animals_, living in _Cells of Obscurity_, seem to be
refrigerated, or benumb’d and DEAD the whole _Winter-Season_.
BUT in this _Case_, the more _certain Method_ is, to try the PATIENT
with proper _Sternutatories_, such as are otherways useful in all such
PAROXYSMS, for if _alive_, she will be quickly mov’d by _Sternutation_:
As when the _Body_ begins to send forth a _Cadaverous Smell_, it is a
certain SIGN that the _innate Heat_ is extinct with the LIFE, and that
the _Body_ is no more supported by the SOUL. Wherefore the safest and
surest way is, not to _bury_ such PERSONS, before the _Expiration of 72
Hours_, reckoning from the beginning of the FIT: Because, if in this
Time, which is the CRISIS, or _Term_ of the _Circuit_ of all the HUMOURS
in the Body, they do not _revive_, there is no more Room left for
_Hopes_.
IN the next place, I come to mark the DIAGNOSTICKS, whereby it may be
best distinguished, which of the before-mentioned _immediate Causes_,
gives _Rise_ to the _HYSTERICK PASSION_ in any _Woman_ labouring under
the same _Malady_. And, I. IF it proceeds from the _Menstruous Blood_,
in this _Condition_, the _Natural Course_ must needs be suppress’d,
either in whole or in part: And the Difference of the _Quality_ of this
_BLOOD_, is evident from the foregoing _Symptoms_.
II. IF from too long _retain’d SEED_; the PATIENT is to be suppos’d
regular in her _natural Flux_, as she is _Calid_ and _Sanguine_, either
from _high Living_, or _want of Exercise_: In _this_ the SYMPTOMS are
all more severe and dangerous, than in the _other Case_, and upon the
declension of the PAROXYSM, or the _Fits_ going off, a certain HUMOUR
flows from the PUDENDUM, occasion’d by the _Constriction_ made in the
WOMB.
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