The compleat midwife's practice enlarged in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man containing a perfect directory or rules for midwives and nurses : as also a guide for women in their conception, bearing and nursing of children from the experience of our English authors, viz., Sir Theodore Mayern, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpeper ... : with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter ... / by John Pechey ... ; the whole illustrated with copper plates.

Explanation of the first Figure.

• A A. The right and left Kernel of the Reins.
• B. The true Kidneys.
• CC. The Emulgent Veins.
• DD. The Emulgent Arteries.
• E E. The Spermatic Veins.
• F F. The Spermatick Arteries.
• GG. The Trunk of the hollow Vein.
• HH. The Trunk of the great Arterie.
• IIII. The Ureters.
• KK. The Vessels that prepare the Seed.
• MM The Stones with all their Tunicles.
• N N. The Vessels carrying the Seed, retorted back into the Bladder.
• O. The Bladder.
• P. The Neck of the Bladder.
• QQ. The two glaudulous Fore-standers.
• R R. The two Muscles that erect the Yard.
• S S. Two other Muscles dilating the Ureter.
• T. The body of the Yard.
• U. The Praeputium that covers the Nut of the Yard.

Explanation of the second Figure.

• A. The Bladder turned downward.
• BB. The insertion of the Uterers into the Bladder.
• CC. The neck of the Womb, which Anatomists call the Sheath, which receives many vessels.
• EEEE. The two lower round Ligaments of the mouth, cut away.
• FF. The blind Vessel of the Womb annexed here to the uppermost and broad Ligament.
• GG. The same vessel on the other side, separated from the broad Ligament.
• HH. The different or Seed-carrying vessels on each side, ending in the neck of the Womb.
• II. The upper and membrany Ligament of the Womb, like the wings of a Bat; thorow which ma∣ny vessels, that arise from the preparing ves∣sels, are scattered and diffused.
• K. The preparing Vessels of one side, not yet dis∣cerned from the first membrany, or filmy Li∣gament.
• L. The preparing Vessels on the other side, severed from the filmy Ligament: to shew you their insertion into the stone, with its films.
• MM. The Stones; where one is covered, the other is bare.
• NN. Many Veins and Arteries scatered into the neck and bottom of the Womb; serving for the purgation of the flowers, and the nourish∣ment of the birth.
• OO. The Nerves scattered through the body of the Womb.