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. VIII. Of pain in the Ears, Moisture, Ul∣cers and Worms.
THe first is allayed by using warm Milk to them, or Oil of Violets, or the de∣coction of Poppies: for the moisture take Honey of Roses, and Aqua Mellis, and drop them into the Ears; for Worms they are kil'd by washing the Ears with white Wine, wherein Wormwood hath been boiled, or drop in Hemp Oil with a little Wine.
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