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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Take of the grease of a Dogg, and the fatt of Mut∣ton which is about the Kidneys, of each two ounces; the Seed of a Whale, about an ounce; Oyl of sweet Almonds, about an ounce and half; prepare the grea∣ses as abovesaid; then mingle them with the other things, and wash them in Rose-water, as before.

Some women that are loath to grease their bellies with these ointments, do carry the skin of a Dogg, or else the outward and thin pilling of a Sheep's skin: Take the skin of a Dog ready drest, for the making of Gloves; wash it a good many times in fair water first, and afterward in Rose-water, then dry it in the shade, and moisten it in the foresaid Oyls.