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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London :: Printed for H. Rhodes ... J. Philips ... J. Taylor ... and K. Bentley ...,
1698.
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Obstetrics -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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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 6, 2024.
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CHAP. II. Whether she have conceived a Male.
IF she have conceived a Male Child, the right eye will move swifter, and look more clear than the left. The right pap will also rise and swell beyond the left, and grow harder, and the colour of the Teats will change more suddenly. The milk will increase more sud∣denly, and if it be milked out, and be set in the Sun, it will harden into a clear Mass, not unlike pearl. If you cast the milk of the woman upon her Urine, it will presently sink to the bottom. Her right cheek is more ruddy, and the whole colour of her face is more chearful; she feels less numness: The first motion of the Child is felt more lively in the right side, for the most part upon the sixtieth day. If her flowers flow the fourtieth day after Conception. The belly is more acute toward the navel. As the Woman goes, she always puts her right leg forward, and in rising she eases all she can her right side sooner than her left.