The expert midwife, or An excellent and most necessary treatise of the generation and birth of man. Wherein is contained many very notable and necessary particulars requisite to be knovvne and practised: with diuers apt and usefull figures appropriated to this worke. Also the causes, signes, and various cures, of the most principall maladies and infirmities incident to women. Six bookes compiled in Latine by the industry of Iames Rueff, a learned and expert chirurgion: and now translated into English for the generall good and benefit of this nation.
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- The expert midwife, or An excellent and most necessary treatise of the generation and birth of man. Wherein is contained many very notable and necessary particulars requisite to be knovvne and practised: with diuers apt and usefull figures appropriated to this worke. Also the causes, signes, and various cures, of the most principall maladies and infirmities incident to women. Six bookes compiled in Latine by the industry of Iames Rueff, a learned and expert chirurgion: and now translated into English for the generall good and benefit of this nation.
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- Rüff, Jakob, 1500-1558.
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- London :: Printed by E. G[riffin] for S. B[urton] and are to be sold by Thomas Alchorn at the signe of the Greene Dragon in Saint Pauls church-yard,
- 1637.
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- Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800.
- Infertility -- Early works to 1800.
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"The expert midwife, or An excellent and most necessary treatise of the generation and birth of man. Wherein is contained many very notable and necessary particulars requisite to be knovvne and practised: with diuers apt and usefull figures appropriated to this worke. Also the causes, signes, and various cures, of the most principall maladies and infirmities incident to women. Six bookes compiled in Latine by the industry of Iames Rueff, a learned and expert chirurgion: and now translated into English for the generall good and benefit of this nation." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A11176.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 23, 2025.
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The Methode of the Worke, through the Arguments of the Bookes and Chapters.
THe first Booke intreateth of the Genera∣tion of man and women.
- Of the generative, or begetting seed, what it is, how, and in what manner it hath its beginning. Chap. 1
- Of the mixture of the seed of both sex: also of the substance and forme of the same. Chap. 2
- Of the three coats, with which the Feature is invi∣roned, defended & covered in the womb. Chap. 3
- Of the three faculties disposing and governing the body, and of the spirit it selfe. Chap. 4
- Of the true Generation of the parts, and the in∣crease of the Feature, according to the daies and moneths. Chap. 5
- Of the food of the Feature in the wombe, with what nourishments it is nourished, and when it groweth to be an Infant. Chap. 6
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The second Booke, of the Matrix and parts thereof; also of the condition and state of the Infant in the wombe, and of the care and duty to be observed by women with childe.
- How necessary a thing it is, to insert the Anatomy of the Matrix to this Worke. Chap. 1
- Of the substance, forme, qualities of the Matrix, and the parts annexed. Chap. 2
- Of what great profit it is, to have an exact know∣ledge of this Tractat. Chap. 3
- Of the condition of the Infant in the wombe, also of the care and duty belonging to women con∣ceived with child. Chap. 4
- How the Infant is conditioned, and in what state he is, the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth moneth: And also of the difference of the sexe and formes. Chap. 5
- Of certaine Precepts very necessary for women conceived with child, even to the houre of the birth, by reason of divers chances. Chap. 6
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The third Booke, of the birth, and of all manner of remedies, which may concerne wo∣men in time of child-birth, and also their In∣fants.
- Of the due and lawfull time of the birth, and of the forme and manner of it, and also of the paines and dolours of women in time of their travell and la∣bour. Chap. 1.
- Of the office of Midwives, and of the apt forme and fashion of their Stoole, or Chaire. Chap. 2
- Of certaine naturall Precepts and Medicines fur∣thering and easing the slownesse and difficulty of the birth. Chap. 3
- How the Secundines or after-burden may have an easie passage if it stay behinde. Chap. 4
- Of the usage and ordering of the woman in child∣bed, and of the Infant being newly borne. Chap. 5
- How, and with what Instruments children sticking in the wombe, and being dead, are to be brought forth. Chap. 6
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The fourth Booke, of the differences and va∣rieties of an unnatuarall birth, and of the cure and remedies of them.
- Of the first forme and fashion of a birth not naturall, and how it is to be remedied. Chap. 1
- Of the second. Chap. 2
- Of the third. Chap. 3
- Of the fourth. Chap 4
- Of the fifth. Chap. 5
- Of the sixth. Chap. 6
- Of the seventh. Chap. 7
- Of the eighth. Chap 8
- Of the ninth. Chap. 9
- Of the tenth. Chap. 10
- Of the eleventh. Ch. 11
- Of the twelfth. Chap. 12
- Of the thirteenth. Ch. 13
- Of the fourteenth. Ch. 14
- Of the fifteenth. Cha. 15
The fifth Booke, of the false conception na∣med Mola, and other false tumors of the womb: Also of aborcements and certaine Monsters, and likewise of the divers signes of conception.
- Of the deceiving conception Mola, and of other falsly supposed conceptions. Chap. 1
- Of the cure of the false conception Mola, and other false tumours and swellings of the womb. Chap 2
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- Of unperfect children, and also of monstrous births. Chap. 3
- Of the causes and signes of aborcement, or untimely births, and also of all manner of cures of such as suffer abortion. Chap. 4
- Of the signes of Conception. Chap. 5
- Whether men and women may ingender or conceive children of Divells and Spirits: and againe, whether Divells and Spirits may have children by men and women. Chap. 6
The sixth Booke, of divers causes of sterility and barrennesse, and of the speciall maladies of the Matrix; and also of the divers remedies of all of them.
- Of the sterility of men and women: also of the causes and signes of the same. Chap. 1
- Of the cure and remedy of sterility and barrennesse, proceeding from phlegme. Chap. 2
- Of the cure of sterility, arising from the cholericke humidities and moistures of the Matrix. Chap. 3
- Of the cure of barrennesse, if it proceed from su∣perfluous bloody humours of the Matrix. Chap. 4
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- Of the cure of sterility proceeding from a melan∣cholie humour. Chap. 5
- Of the remedy of sterility, proceeding from over∣much heat, drinesse, moisture, and coldnesse. Ch. 6
- Of certaine generall Precepts, serving for the cu∣ring of the barrennesse of men and women. Chap. 7
- Of the suffocation or choking of the Mattrix, and of the causes and cure of the same. Chap. 8
- Of the praecipitation or falling downe of the Ma∣trix, and of the causes and cure of it. Chap. 9
- Of the superfluities of the Termes, and of the cure of the same. Chap. 10
- Of the causes and cure of the stopping of the Termes. Chap. 11