CHAP. VI. Of the suspensory Muscles.
TO keep the Stones from oppressing, or stretching over-much the passages of the seminal Vessels,
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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- 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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- Pechey, John, 1655-1716.
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- 1698.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53913.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 26, 2024.
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Nature hath provided them two muscles for them to hang by, on both sides one, in form oblong and slender.
These Muscels derive their origi∣nal from a thick membrane, which is joyned to the Hanchbone, in the further part of that region, where the hair grows; and is fastned to this bone with certain fleshy and straight fibres; where the oblique Muscles of the Ab∣domen or Midriff end, thence reaching down upon the superiour Members of the Testicles, they are ex∣tended through the whole length of that round Body.
These Muscles are never seen in Women, being altogether useless, because their Stones are not pen∣dent, but are inclosed within their bodies.
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The Original of these Muscles.