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.

Of the difficulty which Children have to make water.

IF the Disease proceed from sharpness of the Urine, the Nurse must use such a way of diet as is proper for the tempering and cooling of the blood; she must be purged, and let blood, using afterwards cooling and refrigerating broths. If it proceed from any gross hu∣mor ingendered in the Bladder, the Nurse must ab∣stain from all meats that do breed gross humors, as milky meats, Pease and Beans, and such like.

If the Child be troubled with gravel, which may be perceived by the whiteness and rawness of the Urine, with a gravelly setling at the bottom, and the conti∣nual pain in making water: If the Child be any thing big, let a potion be given him of an ounce and a half of sweet Almonds, an ounce of Pellitory water, and two drams of the juyce of Lemons; use as much of this at a time as is convenient. Or take of this powder, of the blood of a Hare six ounces, of the root of Saxi∣frage one ounce, burn them in an earthen pot; and if the Infant suck, give him a scruple of this powder in a little milk.