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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. — John Shaqi

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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

WHICH _Veins_ are _Two-fold_; namely, _Common_ and _Proper_. The
_Common_ are called _External_, and these are such as only carry the
_Blood_ from the _Vena Cava_, for the Nutrition of the BREASTS; which,
if _superfluous_, or more than is _sufficient_ for that _Use_, is
converted (by the _Glands_ of the BREASTS) into a kind of MILK: Which,
altho’ _white_, is of a _thinner Substance_, not so _sweet_, nor so
_plentiful_, as true MILK. Whereas the proper _Mammary Veins_ carry that
very _Blood_, of which MILK is generated for the Nourishment of the
_Infant_, from the WOMB directly[29]; which happens, by what the
_Greeks_ call an _Anastomosis_, or Conjunction of the _Mammary_ and
_Epigastrick Veins_.

FROM hence we have the Difference of these _two sorts_ of BLOOD and
MILK: Wherefore it is to be concluded, that altho’ the _One_ be found in
the _Breasts_ of _VIRGINS_, they are not therefore to be rashly
suspected of _Pollution_; since, according to _Aristotle_[30], the
_same_ may happen sometimes also to MEN.

BUT, besides what is mention’d, there are many different external
_Methods_ propos’d by _Authors_[31], to distinguish a _Real_, from a
_Supposititious_ _VIRGIN_: Which however I shall not enter upon, lest
what I have intended for the _Benefit_ of All in _general_, might tend
to the _Detriment_ of some in _particular_. And thus having briefly
described the _MAIDEN_ and _MAIDEN-HEAD_, I come now to treat of such
_Indispositions_, as are either _Peculiar_, or more _Familiar_ to her
_STATE_. And, _First_, in order




[Illustration]




                               CHAP. III.
      _Of the Virgin-Disease, commonly called the GREEN-SICKNESS._


THIS _Malady_ is an _Indisposition_ visibly discolorating the
Complexion, and nothing else, but a _Complication_ of divers _Diseases_
and _Symptoms_: Wherefore it is variously represented and taken,
sometimes for a _Disease_, and sometimes for a _Symptom_.

BE that as it will; it is so Familiar, or rather Peculiar to _Mature
VIRGINS_, that most _Physicians_ call it the _Virgin-Disease_, or
_Virgin-Fever_; as _others_ call it _Febris Alba_, or pale Fever: Not
that it is always join’d with a _Fever_; but because the _affected
Party_ represents (in most Respects) a _Feverish Person_, by the
Celerity and Frequency of Her PULSE, _&c._

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