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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CHAP. XIV. What is to be done to the Infant.

THE Midwife having tied up the Navel-string, as is before said, she ought next to cleanse the Infant, not only in the face, but also over the whole body; anointing the groins, hips, buttocks, thighs and joynts with Oyl of sweet Almonds, or fresh But∣ter; this makes the skin more firm, and shuts up the pores of the skin, so that the exterior air cannot come to hurt it; and besides this, it strengthens all the parts of the body.

It would not be amiss to make a bath, or decoction of Roses and Sage in Wine, and with that to wash the Infant every morning

After the Infant is thus well anointed, and after that well dried and wrapped up, you may give to the In∣fant a little Sack and Sugar in a spoon, or else the quan∣tity of a Pease bigness of Mithridate or Treacle dissol∣ved in Wine, with a little Carduus-Water.