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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

FROM whence I come in the next place to offer my serious _Sentiments_
upon the CURE of this _Malady_, and the _Prevention_ of _ABORTION_:
Which difficult _Work_ depends chiefly upon the _Preservation_ of both
_MOTHER_ and _INFANT_; for when the MISCARRIAGE is once over, the CURE
then does not much differ from the _Case_ of a _natural BIRTH_.

HOWEVER in all _Cases_ of this nature, it is an infallible _Maxim_, that
it is more easy to prevent MISCARRIAGE, than to relieve or rectify the
_Miscarrying Woman_; and more proper to begin that _Prevention_ BEFORE,
than AFTER _Conception_: Because the most proper _Remedies_ for
obviating many _Causes_ of _ABORTION_, cannot so well be adhibited to
the _Woman_ after she is PREGNANT. And besides, as _those Causes_ are
very _Different_ and various (as more fully appears from what has been
said); so the Manner and Method of _Prevention_ cannot be altogether
exactly _Uniform_; every _Cause_ requiring its respective CURE, before a
_Prevention_ can be effected.

WHEREFORE, in my humble Opinion, the _first Step_ towards this
_Prevention_ is to weigh well and consider carefully the _CONSTITUTION_
of the yet _unimpregnated Woman_; in order to know and discover the
_Cause_ or _Causes_ either of BODY, or WOMB, which may or can occasion
any future _ABORTION_. Now in this CASE, _Women_ having once
_miscarry’d_, or oftner, methinks they may easily find out the CAUSE
_Themselves_, by the Help of their _Midwives_; which being done, they
should endeavour to have it remov’d, and effectually _cur’d_, before
they _conceive_ any more. However, if it chance to be neglected at that
time, it may be more prudently undertaken afterwards, with such
_Precaution_, as the _Nature_ of the _CAUSE_ and _CONSTITUTION_ of the
_Woman_ require: Always remembring, but especially _before_ or _about_
the usual _Time_ of _ABORTION_, to make use of proper _Corroboratives_
for strengthening both the _INFANT_ and _WOMB_; since _Women_,
_miscarrying_ from any one internal _Cause_, commonly bear their
_Conceptions_ to a certain TIME, which they cannot exceed, unless that
_Cause_ be judiciously removed beforehand.

I ONCE had an accidental Opportunity of being fully satisfied of the
Veracity of this CASE, in a _Woman_ of good Note in the City of
_Dresden_; who _miscarried fourteen Times_ in less than _eight Years_;
being never able to _go_ beyond the _tenth Day_ of the _fourth Month_,
and commonly losing the FOETUS about the _last_ of the _Third_.

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