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.

Of a Child which they thought sick of the Epilepsie, occasioned by the sickness of the Mother, and of the cause.

ONE day there came to me a Gentle-woman, to desire me, that I would give her something for her Daughter that was sick of the Mother: When her Mother related what she ailed, I desired to see her. I saw her, and she had in one hour two several fits, which was an affrightment, attended with very much yawning, after which she remained in a very great weakness; all which time the mouth of the Child was drawn more to one side than the other; the eyes when she was out of the fit were open, and fixed in one place; I inquired of the Mother, at what age her daughter came to be first troubled with it; who answer'd, that she had been in this Town somthing more than a year; and that before that time she was never troubled with any such thing: I gave her the best Counsel that I could; and first of all I bid her to carry her again to the place where she was first nursed: using some few remedies that were convenient; which prospered so well, that, after she came thither, she had but one fit, though she had them so frequently before. Of this no other cause can be given, but that the air of the place where she lived for that year being thicker then that where she was nursed, caused in her a stirring of the humours, with which the mother was continually afflicted, she being disposed naturally to that kind of disease.