Culpeper's directory for midwives: or, A guide for women. The second part. Discovering, 1. The diseases in the privities of women. 2. The diseases of the privie part. 3. The diseases of the womb ... 14. The diseases and symptoms in children.

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Culpeper's directory for midwives: or, A guide for women. The second part. Discovering, 1. The diseases in the privities of women. 2. The diseases of the privie part. 3. The diseases of the womb ... 14. The diseases and symptoms in children.
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Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
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London :: Printed by Peter Cole ...,
1662.
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Gynecology -- Early works to 1800.
Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800.
Infants -- Care -- Early works to 1800.
Children -- Diseases -- Early works to 1800.
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Chap. 10. Of strange things bred in the Breasts.

HAirs, stones and worms have been found in the Breasts. A worm breeds from putid blood, and is like a hair; the same may be in the back and navel, as I shewed. And a good Au∣thor writes that a woman pained in her breasts, could not e e••••ed till imosthunes broke, and wors cme forth.

Levinus Lemnius ••••w stones that grew in the Breast.

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