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 June 4, 2024.
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SECT. XX. Of difficulty and stopping of Urine.
'TIs caused from thick humors, and the Stone that stops the Bladder: its void∣ed by drops, and is thick; then let a Surgeon try with a Catheter if there be a Stone, and if it be not presently cured it turns to one; and all natural evacuation in Children being stopt is dangerous. Evacuate the humors with Honey of Roses, Cassia, white Wine and water; or take the blood of an Hare, dry'd to powder 1 ounce, Saxifrage roots powdered 6 drams; give from a scruple to half a dram in white Wine, or Saxifrage wa∣ter.
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