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 23, 2024.
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Explanation of the Fourth Figure.
This Figure contains the Navel Vessels, and the films or Covering of the Infant.
AAAA. The Muscles of the Midriff, the Peritoneum, and the skin it self dissected into four parts.
B. The Liver of the Infant.
C. The Urinary Vessels.
D. The hole of the Liver, into which the Navel-vein doth pass.
E. The Umbilical, or Navel-vein it self.
FF. The two Navel-arteries tending downwards to the small Gut-Arteries.
G. The passage for the Urine proceeding from the bot∣tom of the Bladder.
H. The Umbilical Vessels taken out of the Body of the Infant, to shew how they are joined together.
I. The Membranes that involves the Navel Vessels.
KKKK. The Guts or Intrailes of the Infant.
LLL. The Navel Vessels extended from the Children to the Birth.
M. The place where the branches of the Navel-Vessels are first collected into one Trunk.
NN. A branch of the Navel-Vessels scattered through The fleshy parts of the Chorion.
OOO. A branch of the Navel-Arteries.
PPPP. The Conjunction of the Umbilical Vein and Ar∣teries.
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QQQQ. The extremities of the Navel-Veins and Ar∣teries, ending the fleshy parts of the Cho∣rion.
RRRR. The Membrane called the Chorion.
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