CHAP. XIV. Of the actions of the Womb.
THE first use of the Womb is to attract the Seed by a familiar sympathy, just as the Second use is to retain it, which is properly called Conception.
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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"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 June 6, 2024.
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The third is to cherish the Seed thus attracted, to al∣ter it, and change into the Birth, by raising up that power which before lay sleeping in the Seed, and to reduce it from power into act.
The fourth action of the Womb is to send forth the birth at the time prefixed; the apt time of expulsion, is, when the expulsive faculty begins to be affected with some sense of trouble, that is, when the Birth afflicts and oppresses the Womb with its own weight.
Besides these uses, it hath these moreover; To nou∣rish the Birth, and to dilate it self, which it doth by the help of Veins and Arteries, which do fill more and more with matter, as nature requires.
The chiefest action of the Womb,* 1.1 and most proper to it, is, the retention of the Seed; without which, nothing of other actions could be performed for the Genera∣tion of man.
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The proper acti∣ons of the Womb.