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
IV. THAT the Rest of the morbifick _Humours_, whether _Crude_,
_Aqueous_, or _Serous_, lurking behind in the _Body_, be in due manner
discharg’d.
BUT more particularly; The CURE may be begun with a gentle _Evacuation
of the Belly_, and, if Strength and other Circumstances shall permit,
with repeated _VENÆSECTIONS_[32], or _Blood-letting_ in the _Foot_, not
only for removing the _Plenitude_, but also for resolving the
_Obstructions_ of the _MENSTRUA_.
AND because the HUMOURS are _Thick_ and _Frigid_, proper _warming_ and
_attenuating_, or preparing and purging _Medicines_ are to be used in
their Turns; or _rarefying_ and _inciding Matters_ may be mixed with the
_Purgatives_. As also in Case the HUMOURS lodge about the _Ventricle_
and _Mesentery_, a gentle VOMIT may be convenient.
BUT because divers _Parts_ suffer _OBSTRUCTIONS_ in this sickly
_Affection_, proper _Aperitives_ are to be made use of; and _Those_
chiefly, which have a _natural Affinity_ with every respective _affected
Part_: As for Example; _Hepaticks_, for the _LIVER_; _Spleneticks_, for
the _SPLEEN_; _Uterines_, for the _WOMB_, &c. Wherefore the _Physician_
ought to weigh and consider well, whether the _Veins_ about the
_VENTRICLE_ and _MESENTERY_, or _LIVER_ and _SPLEEN_, be most
_obstructed_; since the most special Regard must be had to the _Part
most affected_.
IN the _Beginning_, such _Medicines_ as serve best to open the
_Obstructions_ of the _MESENTERY_, _SPLEEN_, and _LIVER_, sparingly
mix’d with such as provoke the _MENSTRUA_ or _MONTHS_, are to be
discreetly used: But afterwards, in _Progress_ of the CURE, the
_Uterines_ may (by Degrees) be prudentially _augmented_.
HOWEVER, at last it often happens, that tho’ the _grosser HUMOURS_ are
evacuated: yet some _watry, serous Humours_ remain in the Circuit of the
Body, too much refrigerating and infesting it still; which are most
conveniently remov’d by _Sudorificks_.
BUT because the compleat _CURE_ of this _Disease_ requires some Length
of Time, I would advise proper _Preparatives, Purgatives_, and
_Corroboratives_, to be exhibited by Turns; as also the very _Form_ and
_Composition_ of the _MEDICINES_ to be varied in their Courses, for the
preventing of _Nauseousness_.
THE _Patient’s REGIMEN_, must likewise be well prescrib’d, and curiously
_regulated_; especially her DIET. She ought to live upon Victuals of the
best _Nutrition_, and easiest _Concoction_, carefully avoiding all
_others_ that are not so agreeable: Especially such as are of a _frigid
or humid Quality_; such as _Pot-herbs_, _Garden-Fruits_, _Milk_ _Fish_,
&c. She may drink generous _Wine_, or good _Ale_ cautiously abstaining
from all _small Drinks_, and other such like noxious _Liquids_, as much
as possible.
MOREOVER, _Motion_ and _Exercise_ are very convenient, not only in the
_Beginning_, but also in the _Declension_ of this _DISEASE_; especially
by strongly _Chafing_ and _Rubbing_, with warm _Flannels_, every Morning
in _Bed_.
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