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 Hicquet.

IF it come from an over much repletion, it will not be amiss to make him Vomit, of whatsoever age he be; or if it be necessary that a greater force should be used, you must try to make him Vomit by putting down the Throat a feather dipt in oyl: If from the bad∣ness of the Nurses mi••k, she must be changed for a bet∣ter; if from the coldness of the stomach, you must use remedies to comfort it, as little Tablets of Diarrhodon,

of which you must dissolve a scruple in the Milk of the Nurse; you must also chafe the stomach of the Child with Oyl of Wormwood, Mastick, and Quinces.