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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

THE _Second Case_ is called an ANASTOMOSIS; and what happens by such
irregular _Dilatations_, falls _Drop_ by _Drop_ away; and is All _Acid_,
_Ill-colour’d_, _Stinking_, _Thin_, _Pale_, _Serous Stuff_.

THE _Third Case_ is known by an immoderate and irregular _Flooding_, as
it were in _Heaps_; attended with PAINS of the _Groins_, _Loins_, &c:
And at last aggravated with _Faintings_ and _Convulsions_. The true
STATE of which _Case_ is particularly noted in Sect. V. Chap. 7. Only
give me leave to add here, that the _Procatarctick Cause_, is always
sufficiently known, from the _Relation_ of the PATIENT.

BUT however, it is also proper to know in all the above-mention’d
_Cases_, from what _Place_, and by what _Vessels_ this _Flux_ happens:
Which may be rightly thus distinguished; for if from the _Neck_ of the
WOMB, it flows orderly and moderately; as it likewise does, if it comes
from _Vessels_ no ways adhering to the INFANT: but if it arises from the
_Bottom_ of the WOMB, it flows in less _Order_, and greater _Quantity_;
and if it happens, in fine, from the _Vessels_ fixed to the INFANT, and
the CHORION, then it does _flow_ most irregularly of all, and in very
great _Quantities_.

THE _Prognosticks_ of this _SYMPTOM_ are, either a[74] weak debilitated
INFANT, or an approaching _Abortion_: But besides also, it sometimes
portends a _hard_, _laborious_, and _protracted BIRTH_, perhaps even to
the 11th _Month_.

WHICH _Prognosticks_ are indeed founded upon sufficient relative
_Reasons_: The _First_, because the _INFANT_ is not able to convert the
_whole_ of the _superabundant_ BLOOD, to its _Aliment_: The _Second_,
because the _INFANT_ (tho’ perhaps Strong and Able enough) is depriv’d
of its requisite _Sustenance_: The _Third_, because (according to
_Hippocrates_, &c.) a _sickly Gestation_ always indicates a difficult
and laborious _BIRTH_: And besides the reason of a _protracted Birth_
(beyond the _ordinary Time_) is very plain and perspicuous; because, if
a _strong healthy CHILD_ requires _two Months_, to recover itself after
the first _Onset_ or _Attempt_ of the _7th Month_, (as is more amply
explain’d in _Chap._ 34. of this Section) it is but highly reasonable to
think, that a _weak sickly One_, requires a _longer Time_ of Gestation.

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