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 June 5, 2024.
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CHAP. IV. Of the Conception of Twins.
IF a Woman have conceived Twins,* 1.1 the signs thereof ap∣pear not, till the third or fourth month after her Conception; and then they will ap∣pear by the motion of the Infant, and by the extraor∣dinary swelling of her Belly. As to the motion, it is plain, that she doth bear twins, if she perceive a mo∣tion on the right and left side at the same instant, which she perceives more quick and violent. As for the greatness of the belly; If the Woman perceive it bigger than at any other times of her being with Child; as also if the two flanks be swelled higher than the middle of the belly: if there do appear as it were a line of division from the navel to the groin, making a kind of Channel all along; if the Woman carry her burden with more than ordinary pain: These are commonly the signs of Twins.