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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Title: 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.
Author: Pechey, John, 1655-1716.
Publication: London :: Printed for H. Rhodes ... J. Philips ... J. Taylor ... and K. Bentley ...,; 1698.
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Subject terms: Obstetrics -- England -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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Take this one more Liniment.

Take a quarter of a pound of fresh butter, well wash∣ed in fair water; of Rose-water, and of Oyl of sweet-Almonds, an ounce; of the seed of a Whale, half an ounce; melt these altogether, and anoint the belly. These Ointments are to be kept in a Gally-pot, cover∣ed over with Rose-water.

In the first days of this Month it might not be un∣profitable to be bathed in the following decoction, for the space of a quarter of an hour; and being afterwards put to bed, to let her self be well rubbed, and after∣wards anointed with some good Ointment all about the Navel, along the Os facrum, and the bone of the small guts, and all about her hips and thighs.