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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 _first Case_ of this _SYMPTOM_, seems to be the most favourable of
the _Three_; yet I would advise such _Sanguine_ or _Plethorick Women_,
to guard against _one ill Consequence_, which I have known sometimes to
happen in the same burthensome _Condition_: Namely, that from too great
a _Plenty_ or _Superfluity_ of BLOOD, it sometimes runs through the
_interiour Veins_ into the _Cavity_ of the WOMB, which renders the
_Case_ by far the most dangerous; because this BLOOD[75] (being out of
its proper _Canal_ or _Center_) irregularly extravas’d, immediately
_corrupts_ and _suppurates_; which corrupted BLOOD, in Concert with the
_INFANT_, (whose _Aliment_ is thereby impair’d) always obliges the WOMB,
to dilate and yield up its _Contents_: So that, in short, this
particular _SYMPTOM_[76] is, in all its different Cases or Conditions,
the most Pernicious and Dangerous.

WHEREFORE it is, that the respective CURES of these sundry _Cases_,
belong only to the Ablest _Physician_, and _That_ (most properly) to
_Him_ who professes and practices MIDWIFERY: Because, when _Medicinal
Helps_ fail, and cannot prevent _Misfortunes_, HE will at least know
best then, how to _Compose_, and _Mitigate_ them, by delivering the
Woman, if Necessity so require.




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                               CHAP. XX.
              _Of the SYMPTOMS of the last three Months_.


TWO _third Parts_ of the common Duration and Conjuncture of
CHILD-BEARING, being, by this time faithfully, if not so fully,
accounted for; it remains now, that we also more particularly consider
the MOTHER and her INFANT throughout the last _Three Months-Travail_.
These are the _Finishing Maturating Months_ of the _INFANT_: I mean
peculiarly, as to its _Strength_ and _Vigour_; since in other respects,
the _Middle Months_ have duly _perfected_ the Ornaments of the
_particular Members_, and gracefully compleated the SHAPE and FORM of
the whole Body.

WHEREFORE, as, in these _latter Months_, the _CHILD_ encreases in
_Bulk_, _Vigour_, and _Activity_, it then affords the tender MOTHER
incredible _Uneasinesses_, and grows sometimes almost _Obstreperous_:
Which _Augmentation_ of the FOETUS (of natural Consequence) occasions in
her Constitution of Body various different _Effects_; call’d _SYMPTOMS_
of the last _Three Months_.

NOW these _SYMPTOMS_, I hope I may pertinently reduce to the following
_Nine_, in Number; namely, 1. _Dysuries_; 2. _Ischuries_; 3.
_Stranguries_; 4. _Costiveness_; 5. _Tenesms_; 6. _Varices_; 7.
_Inflations_ of the _Legs_; 8. _Fissures_ of the Belly; and 9. and
lastly, _Water-Fluxes_. Of which I shall take leave to treat separately,
in their proper Order.




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                               CHAP. XXI.
               _Of DYSURIES, ISCHURIES, and STRANGURIES._

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