The English midwife enlarged containing directions to midwives; wherein is laid down whatever is most requisite for the safe practising her art. Also instructions for women in their conceiving, bearing and nursing of children. With two new treatises, one of the cure of diseases and symptoms happening to women before and after child-birth. And another of the diseases, &c. of little children, and the conditions necessary to be considered in the choice of their nurses and milk. The whole fitted for the meanest capacities. Illustrated with near 40 copper-cuts.
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The English midwife enlarged containing directions to midwives; wherein is laid down whatever is most requisite for the safe practising her art. Also instructions for women in their conceiving, bearing and nursing of children. With two new treatises, one of the cure of diseases and symptoms happening to women before and after child-birth. And another of the diseases, &c. of little children, and the conditions necessary to be considered in the choice of their nurses and milk. The whole fitted for the meanest capacities. Illustrated with near 40 copper-cuts.
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London :: printed for Thomas Sawbridge, at the sign of the Three Flower-de-luces in Little Brittain,
1682.
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Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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"The English midwife enlarged containing directions to midwives; wherein is laid down whatever is most requisite for the safe practising her art. Also instructions for women in their conceiving, bearing and nursing of children. With two new treatises, one of the cure of diseases and symptoms happening to women before and after child-birth. And another of the diseases, &c. of little children, and the conditions necessary to be considered in the choice of their nurses and milk. The whole fitted for the meanest capacities. Illustrated with near 40 copper-cuts." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A38470.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2024.
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PART. III. Of Diseases and Symptoms happening to Women after Child-birth.
SEct. 1. Of Remedies for the Breasts and lower parts of the Belly of Women newly de∣livered, and how to drive back the Milk. p. 241
Sect. 2. Of Fludding after Child-Birth. p. 244
Sect. 3. Of the bearing down and falling out of
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the Womb and Fundament of a Woman newly layd. p. 247
Sect. 4. Of the bruises and rents of the outward parts of the Womb, caused by Labors. p. 252
Sect. 5. Of the After-pains. p. 254
Sect. 6. Of the Lochia, whence they come, if good or bad, their stopping, and what ensues. p. 255
Sect. 7. Of the Inflammation &c. of the Womb. p. 258
Sect. 8. Of the Inflammation and Apostemation of the Breasts. p. 259
Sect. 9. Of the curdling of the Milk in the Breasts. p. 262
Sect. 10. Of Choping &c. and loss of the Nip∣ples. p. 265
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