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 11, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• To all English Midwives.
• THE Contents of the Sections.
  • part - 1
  • PART. II. Of Diseases happening to Big-Belly'd Women before Child-Birth.
  • PART. III. Of Diseases and Symptoms happening to Women after Child-birth.
  • PART. IV. Of the Diseases and Symptoms happening to lit∣tle Children: and of the choice of a Nurse.
• treatise
  • part - 1
    • SECT. I. Of the True generation of it Parts, and Increase of the Infant in the Womb, according to the daies and times, till the time of the Birth.
    • SECT. II. Of the signs of Conception, and whe∣ther the Child thrive in the Womb.
    • SECT. III. Of the Nutriment of the Child in the Womb, and by what nourishment it is preserved, and when it groweth up to be an Infant.
    • SECT. IV. How the Infant doth in the Womb the fifth, the sixth, the seventh, and eighth month; and of the due time and form of the Birth; and causes of pain in Child-birth.
    • SECT. V. Rules for Child-bearing Women, and how to prevent Abortion.
    • SECT. VI. A Dialogue between the Midwife, and the Doctor, concerning Midwifes and the delivery of Women in Child∣birth.
    • SECT. VII. Of the several natural situations of the Infant in the Mothers Womb, ac∣cording to the different times of Child-bearing.
    • SECT. VIII. Of difficult births, whether they pro∣ceed from Causes external or inter∣nal.
    • SECT. IX. Of the Fashions, and Figures of the birth, and how Children are born or may be born.
    • SECT. X. Figure the first. Of unnatural Births.
    • SECT. XI. Figure the Second.
    • SECT. XII. Figure the Third.
    • SECT. XIII. Figure the Fourth.
    • SECT. XIV. Figure the Fifth.
    • SECT. XV. Figure the Sixth.
    • SECT. XVI. Figure the Seventh.
    • SECT. XVII. Figure the Eighth.
    • SECT. XVIII. Figure the Ninth.
    • SECT. XIX. Figure the Tenth.
    • SECT. XX. Figure the Eleventh.
    • SECT. XXI. Figure the Twelfth.
    • SECT. XXII. Of a birth wherein the Infant presents the belly.
    • SECT. XXIII. How to help a Woman in her Labor, when the Childs head thrusts the neck of the Womb forth before it.
    • SECT. XXIV. How to deliver a Woman when the Child presents the side of the Head, to the birth, or its Face.
    • SECT. XXV. How to deliver a Woman when the Childs Head is born, and the Womb closeth about its Neck.
    • SECT. XXVI. When the Navil-string comes first.
    • SECT. XXVII. Wherein the Burthen either first offers it self or comes first quite forth.
    • SECT. XXVIII. Figure the Thirteenth.
    • SECT. XXIX. Figure the Fourteenth.
    • SECT. XXX. Figure the Fifteenth.
    • SECT. XXXI. Figure the Sixteenth.
    • SECT. XXXII. Of delivering of a Woman of a dead Child.
    • SECT. XXXII. Of the extracting of a mola and false conception.
    • SECT. XXXIV. Of the Secundine, or Afterburden, and the best and safest way to draw it forth.
  • PART. II.
    • SECT. I. Of Barrenness and the several kinds thereof.
    • SECT. II. Of Superfaetation.
    • SECT. III. Of Vomitings of Women with Child.
    • SECT. IV. Of the pains of the Back, Loins, Reins and Hips.
    • SECT. V. Of the pains of the Breasts.
    • SECT. VI. Of involuntary voiding, and stop∣ing of Urine.
    • SECT. VII. Of a Cough and difficult breathing.
    • SECT. VIII. Of the swelling and pains of the Thighs and Legs.
    • SECT. IX. Of the Hemorrhoids.
    • SECT. X. Of the several Fluxes happening to Women with Child.
    • SECT. XI. Of Fluddings.
    • SECT. XII. Of the Weight of the Womb, &c.
    • SECT. XIII. Of the Dropsie of the Womb, &c.
    • SECT. XIV. Of Abortion and its causes.
  • PART. III. Of Diseases and Symptoms happening to Women after Child-birth.
    • SECT. I. Of Remedies for the Brests and lower parts of the Belly of Women newly delivered, and how to draw back the Milk.
    • SECT. II. Of Fludding after Child-birth.
    • SECT. III. Of the bearing down and falling out of the Womb and Fundament of a Wo∣man newly layd.
    • SECT. IV. Of the bruises and rents of the outward parts of the Womb, caused by La∣bors.
    • SECT. V. Of the After-pains.
    • SECT. VI. Of the Lochia, whence they come, if good or bad, their stopping, and what ensues.
    • SECT. VII. Of the Inflammation &c. of the Womb.
    • SECT. VIII. Of the Inflammation and Aposte∣mation of the Breasts.
    • SECT. IX. Of the curdling of the Milk in the Breasts.
    • SECT. X. Of Choping &c. and loss of the Nipples.
  • PART. IV. Of the Diseases and Symptoms happen∣ing to little Children: and of the choice of a Nurse.
    • SECT. I. What manner of Woman a Nurse ought to be; and whether the Mother be the best Nurse.
    • SECT. II. Of the Diseases and Symptoms which happen to Children, and first of their Diseases in general.
    • SECT. III. Of Feavers, Meazels, and Small-Pox, in little Children.
    • SECT. IV. Of the milky scab, Achores, Scald-Head and Lice.
    • SECT. V. Of the watry swelling of the Head.
    • SECT. VI. Of Frights in the Sleep, and Watching.
    • SECT. VII. Of the Falling-sickness and Convulsion.
    • SECT. VIII. Of pain in the Ears, Moisture, Ul∣cers and Worms.
    • SECT. IX. Of the Thrush, bladders of the Gums, and Inflammation of the Tonsils.
    • SECT. X. Of the breeding of Teeth.
    • SECT. XI. Of a Catarrh, Cough and dif∣ficult breathing.
    • SECT. XII. Of the Hiccup and Vomiting.
    • SECT. XIII. Of the pains and puffing of the Belly.
    • SECT. XIV. Of the Flux of the Belly.
    • SECT. XV. Of Costiveness.
    • SECT. XVI. Of Worms.
    • SECT. XVII. Of the Rupture.
    • SECT. XVIII. Of Bunching out, and Inflamma∣tion of the Navil.
    • SECT. XIX. Of the falling out of the Fundament.
    • SECT. XX. Of difficulty and stopping of Urine.
    • SECT. XXI. Of not holding Urine.
    • SECT. XXII. Of Leanness and Betwitching.
• illustrations