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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

_“Quos ante Conjux quatuor
                     “Natos_, SABINE, _protulit,
                     “Multùm ecce dissimiles tui,
                     “Tuos nec ipse deputas.
                     “Sed quem tibi puellulum
                     “Enixa jam nuperrimè est,
                     “Solum tibi simillimum,
                     “Pro quatuor complecteris.
                     “Adulterinos quatuor
                     “Vocas, repellis, abdicas.
                     “Atqui graves tradunt Sophi,
                     “Quodcunque matres interim
                     “Imaginantur fortiter,
                     “Dum liberis datur opera,
                     “Ejus latenter & notas
                     “Certas, & indelebiles
                     “Modóque inexplicabili
                     “In semen ipsum congeri.
                     “Quibus receptis intimè,
                     “Simúlque concrescentibus,
                     “A mente Matris insitam
                     “Natus refert imaginem.
                     “Quum tot abesses millibus,
                     “Dum gignit Uxor quatuor,
                     “Quòd esset admodum tui
                     “Secura, dissimiles parit.
                     “Sed unus omnium hic Puer
                     “Tui refert imaginem,
                     “Quòd mater hunc dum concipit,
                     “Sollicita de te plurimùm,
                     “Te tota cogitaverat,
                     “Dum pertimescit anxia,
                     “Ne tu_, SABINE, _incommodus,
                     “Velútque lupus in fabulâ
                     “Supervenires interim._

HOWEVER, as to what relates to the _Tempers_, _Dispositions_, _Miens_,
_Manners_, _Qualities_, and _Propensions_ of the MIND, daily _Examples_
convince us, that _Children_, after all, generally much resemble _Those_
of their _Progenitors_; which proceeds merely from the _Efficacy_ of the
SEED, containing the Power of the natural _Faculties_ of their Minds and
_vital Spirits_, which are thence infus’d into their _Posterity_.

BUT I take this _Matter_ to depend much upon the _Passion_, _Indolence_,
or _Indifferency_ of the Mind, with which the ACT of _Copulation_ is
perform’d. For as the _Ardour_ and _Fervency_ of the _Parents_, and
their plentiful prolifick _Contribution_, tend much to the _CHILD’s_
affecting the same _Behaviour_, _Gestures_, _Actions_, _Tempers_, and
_Motions_ of BODY and MIND; even sometimes to their representing the
very _Nature_, and treading the very _Foot-Steps_ of their PARENTS, to
so nice a degree, of an exact Resemblance, that I’ve more than once
observed a MOLE-MARK of a _Father_ plainly impress’d on his _Child_.
Which, I think, is also conformable to[49] _Horace_’s Meaning;

                 _“Fortes creantur fortibus & bonis:
                 “Est in Juvencis, est in equis patrum
                 “Virtus: nec imbellem feroces
                 “Progenerant Aquilæ Columbam._

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