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.

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Title: 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.
Author: Pechey, John, 1655-1716.
Publication: London :: Printed for H. Rhodes ... J. Philips ... J. Taylor ... and K. Bentley ...,; 1698.
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Subject terms: Obstetrics -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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CHAP. XV. Of the Action of the Yard.

THE main scope of Nature in the use of the Yard, was, the injection of Seed into the womb of the Woman, which injection could not be done, till the Seed were first moved; neither could the Seed be moved but by frication of the parts, which could not be done, till it were sheathed in the Womb; nor that neither, till the Yard were erected.

This distention is caused by repletion; which is caused by the plenty of Seed: Secondly, by superflui∣ty of wind, which if it be too violent, is the cause of priapism: A third cause proceeds from the abun∣dance of Urine contained in the Bladder. Sometimes, the heat of the reins is a cause thereof.