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The Province of Midwives in the Practice of their Art: Instructing them in the timely knowledge of such difficulties as require the assistance of Men, for the preservation of Mother and Child; very necessary for the perusal of all the sex interested in the subject, and interspersed with some New and Useful Observations.Clark, William

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The Province of Midwives in the Practice of their Art: Instructing them in the timely knowledge of such difficulties as require the assistance of Men, for the preservation of Mother and Child; very necessary for the perusal of all the sex interested in the subject, and interspersed with some New and Useful Observations.

Name: The Province of Midwives in the Practice of their Art: Instructing them in the timely knowledge of such difficulties as require the assistance of Men, for the preservation of Mother and Child; very necessary for the perusal of all the sex interested in the subject, and interspersed with some New and Useful Observations.
Author: Clark, William

Clark, William

Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800

This informs us, that when the Child is troubled with Gripes,
attended with green, sour-smelling Stools, the Mother, or Nurse, by
being confin’d to an Animal Diet, will, in a great Degree, prevent
the Gripes, Looseness, or Convulsions, occasion’d by the Acidities
of the Child’s Stomach and Bowels, from the contrary Qualities
communicated to her Milk. On the Contrary, a vegetable Diet will
greatly relieve the same Complaints, attended with strong smelling
Stools, and a Tendency to the Putrefaction of the Humours, and the
Child’s Spoon-meat, when any Thing is given besides the Mother’s
Milk, may be regulated accordingly: In the mean Time, in both
Cases, these Indigestions ought to be purged off with a few Grains
of Rhubarb, or double the Quantity infus’d at Night in a Spoonful
of common Drink, strain’d and sweetened with Honey.

This, with a suitable and commodious Dress, leaving them Freedom
for all their Motions, taking Care not to fill them with Crudities,
by over-charging their Stomachs, would preserve the Health of young
Children, they would then sleep away most of their Time, without
those continual Cries of Misery, calling on the Compassion of all
about them, whereby abundance of Trouble to their Nurses, and the
continual Occasion of Medicines, to sweeten and purge away the
Effects of Indigestion, would be prevented.


_FINIS._




TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE

Original spelling and grammar were generally retained. The
following two corrections were made in conformance with the spirit
of the list of errata on page vi.

 Page 9, l. 16. “Pains about the Navel and Loins” was changed to
 “Pains about the Back, Navel and Loins”.

 Page 33, l. 12. Changed “great Complaints of a smarting Pain;
 when I touch’d it a Suppuration” to “great Complaints of a
 smarting Pain when I touch’d it; a Suppuration”. This correction
 is not quite what the erratum on page vi recommends—but the
 recommendation is not quite correct.

Page 21. Changed “which happpen’d the same Day” to “which happen’d
the same Day”.

Page 49. Changed “and its _Secondines_ left” to “and its
_Secundines_ left”.












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