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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

Chap.  1. _Of God._                                      Page         1
        2. _Of Nature._                                                4
        3. _Of Man._                                                   6
        4. _Of the Soul._                                              8
        5. _Of the Faculties of the Soul._                            13
        6. _Of the Humane Body._                                      16
        7. _Of the Formation of the Embryo._                          20
        8. _Of the Animation of the Fœtus._                           24
        9. _Of the Maturation of the Infant._                         29
       10. _Of the Nutrition and Posture of the Infant._              30
       11. _Of the Membranes and Waters._                             32
       12. _Of the Secundine or After-Birth._                         33
       13. _Of the Umbilical Vessels, or Navel-String._               34

                                SECT. II.

 Chap.  1. _Of the Symptoms peculiar to the State of
             Maiden-Hood._        Page                                37
        2. _Of Virginity._                                            38
        3. _Of the Virgin-Disease, commonly call’d the
             Green-Sickness._                                         42
        4. _Of Love._                                                 49
        5. _Of Copulation._                                           53
        6. _Remarks upon Copulation._                                 55
        7. _Of the Power of the Imaginative Faculty._                 57
        8. _Of the Similitude of Children._                           63

                               SECT. III.

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