A companion for midwives, child-bearing women, and nurses directing them how to perform their respective offices : together with an essay, endeavouring to shew the influence of moral abuses upon the health of children / by Robert Barret ...
- Title
- A companion for midwives, child-bearing women, and nurses directing them how to perform their respective offices : together with an essay, endeavouring to shew the influence of moral abuses upon the health of children / by Robert Barret ...
- Author
- Barret, Robert, Brother of Surgeons Hall.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Tho. Ax ...,
- 1699.
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- Subject terms
- Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800.
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Contents
- title page
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TO THE Right Honourable and Vertuous ELIZABETH, Countess of
ANGLESEY, ONE OF THE Most Renown'd Family of the Ancient Earls ofRut∣land, &c. - THE PREFACE TO THE Reader.
- The Contents.
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SECTION I. Containing the Character of a Mid∣wife, with Directions how to perform her Office towards Mother and Child, as well in the time of Labour, as before, and after Delivery; with a full and brief description of the various sorts of unna∣tural Labours, and the more dangerous Symptoms of Women in Childbed; with the most approv'd methods of Relief.
- CHAP. I. Containing the Character of a Mid∣wife; with some short Remarks on her Humour, Manners, and Con∣duct in performing her Duty.
- CHAP. II. What preparatory offices are incum∣bent on the Midwife, when the Woman is near the time of her Delivery.
- CHAP. III Explaining a Midwife's Duty in time of Travel.
- CHAP. IV Containing Directions to a midwife, what to do when the Child is just come into the World.
- CHAP. V. How to manage the Woman when Delivered.
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CHAP. VI. How to know whether the Child in the Womb be dead or alive; if dead, how to perform her Office; with Directions in case of a
Mola, or false Conception. - CHAP. VII. Of the different sorts of unnatural Labours, with the best Methods of assisting on such extraordinary oc∣casions.
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CHAP. VIII.
Of theCesarean Section, or Cutting the Child out of the Mother's Womb. -
CHAP. IX.
Of the Various Symptoms happening to Women in Childbed, and the Me∣thods of Cure.
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SECT. II.
Of the Instruments of Generation in Women; the Membranes that en∣fold the Child in the Womb; the Man∣ner of its Generation, Encrease, and Nourishment in the Womb; the Causes of Barrenness, and the Means to pre∣vent it; the Conduct of a Woman go∣ing with Child; the Signs of Concep∣tion, and the Prevention of Miscar∣riage.- CHAP. I. Of the Parts serving for Generation in Women.
- CHAP. II. Of the Membranes enfolding the Child in the Womb.
- CHAP. III. Of the manner of generating the In∣fant in the Womb, and its gradu∣al Nourishment and Encrease from the first Minute of Conception to the Hour of Birth.
- CHAP. IV. Of the Causes of Barrenness and the means to prevent it.
- CHAP. V. Directions how a Woman shall know when she has Conceiv'd; what Con∣duct she ought to observe during the Time of her being with Child, so as to prevent Miscarriage.
- SECT. III. The Character and Duty of a Nurse, with reference to the Child, from the Time of its Birth, to its removal from her Conduct. Together with an Essay upon what Influence Moral Abuses may have upon its Health.