Every woman her own midwife, or, A Compleat cabinet opened for child-bearing women furnished with directions to prevent miscarriages during the time of breeding, and other casualties which usually attend women in child-bed : to which is annexed cures for all sorts of diseases incident to the bodies of men, women and children.

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Every woman her own midwife, or, A Compleat cabinet opened for child-bearing women furnished with directions to prevent miscarriages during the time of breeding, and other casualties which usually attend women in child-bed : to which is annexed cures for all sorts of diseases incident to the bodies of men, women and children.

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London :: Printed for Simon Neale ...,

1675.

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Medicine, Popular -- Early works to 1800.

Obstetrics -- Popular works.

Pharmacopoeias.

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Contents

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  • A SHORT COMMENTARIE, Concerning the Care ought to be had of Women which are with child, such as are ready to bring forth, such as are brought to bed, and also of Infants.
    • CHAP. I. What things are to be taken heed of in the two first Moneths.
    • CHAP. II. Order for the third Moneth.
    • CHAP. III. From the fourth Moneth.
    • CHAP. IIII. From the fifth,, sixth, and seventh Moneth,
    • CHAP. V. The eighth Moneth
    • CHAP. VI. In the ninth Moneth.
    • CHAP. VII. What is to be done at the birth.
    • CHAP. VIII. To whom the seat may agree and be fit.
    • CHAP. IX. What the Midwife shall doe in the very moment of the birth.
    • CHAP. X. When the Infant is come into the world.
    • CHAP. XI If the Secondines break not readily.
    • CHAP. XII. To draw forth a dead Child.
    • CHAP. XIII. How the bellies of child-bearing women, being costive or bound may be loosned.
    • CHAP. XIV What things are to be applied to the naturall or secret parts.
    • CHAP. XV. The order from the seventh day after the woman is brought to bed.
    • CHAP. XVI. Against the gripings of the belly in child-bearing women.
    • CHAP. XVII. The government of the Nurse.
    • CHAP. XVIII. A Bath of sweet water, very profitable for children, as by whose meanes they may grow up and increase.
    • CHAP. XIX. The Diseases of Infants.
    • CHAP. XX. Against the Rupture of the Cods and perinaeum, and the part be∣tween the rising of the Yeard and the Fundament, which proceedeth from difficulty of bringing forth.
    • CHAP. XXI. For windinesse or Collick of the belly.
    • CHAP. XXII. For the Itch.
    • CHAP. XXIII. For the Flux of bloud.
    • CHAP. XXIV. For the falling down of the Matrix from the birth.
    • CHAP. XXV. For the Piles after the birth.
    • CHAP. XXVI. Against pain of the Breasts, contracted by too much Milk.
    • CHAP. XXVII. For the Imposthume of the Breasts.
  • Some few additionall Observations, concerning the passages in ths for∣mer Treatise.
    • CHAP. XXVIII. What is to be administred unto the Child, after it is born, for the first thing it taketh.
    • CHAP. XXIX. For Infants troubled with wind and flegm.
    • CHAP. XXX. A most excellent Medicine to cause children to teeth easily.
    • CHAP. XXXI. For Agues in Children.
    • CHAP. XXXII. For Worms in Children.
    • CHAP. XXXIII. For Heart-Wormes.
    • CHAP. XXXIV. To cause a young Child to goe to stoole.
  • Choise and select Medicines, collected by a Phisitian for his own private use, and Alphabetically digested by him, and from him communicated for publick use.
    • A For the Ach in the bones.
    • B For a short Breath.
    • C For a Cough of the Lungs.
    • D For the Dropsie.
    • E For pains in the Eyes.
    • F For the Flux.
    • G. For the Gout, or Ache in the joynts, knobs, or knots in the flesh. Probat.
    • H Hermes Tree.
    • I A Plaister to help any Stitch, or Imposthume wheresoever.
    • L. For a lame Leg.
    • M A cooling Almond Milk.
    • N A Water to restore Nature.
    • P For the French Pox.
    • S A Sear-cloth for divers causes.
    • T For the pricking of a Thorn.
    • W To take away a Wen.
• The Printer to the Reader.
• The Author to the Reader.
• A defensative against the Plague.
  • The first Treatise
    • CHAP. I. What the Plague is.
    • CHAP. II. Cause of the Plague.
    • CHAP. III. Warnings of the Plague to come.
    • CHAP. IIII. Sheweth how to prevent the Plague.
    • CHAP. V.
    • CHAP. VI.
    • CHAP. VII.
    • CHAP. VIII.
    • CHAP. IX. What Diet we ought to keep.
    • CHAP. X. Sheweth what Exercise and Order is to be kept.
    • CHAP. XI. Teacheth what orders Magistrates, and Rulers of Cities and Townes, should cause to be observed,
    • CHAP. XII. Doth shew what you must do when you go to visit the sick.
    • CHAP. XIII. Sheweth the signes of infection.
  • The Second Treatise, shewing the meanes how to cure the Plague.
    • CHAP. I.
    • CHAP. II. Sheweth what is to be done after taking of the Cordiall.
    • CHAP. III. Sheweth what symptoms ften chance, and how to help them.
    • CHAP. IIII. Sheweth the generall cure of a botch when he appeares outwardly.
    • CHAP. V. Sheweth how to bring the botch out, that lieth deep within the body or flesh.
    • CHAP. VI. Sheweth what is to be done when the botch strikes in again.
    • CHAP. VII. Sheweth how to draw a botch from one place to another, and so to discusse him without breaking.
    • CHAP. VIII. Sheweth how to know a Carbunkle or blain, as also the cure of the same.
  • A Short Treatise of the Small Pox, shewing the Means how for to govern and cure those which are infected therewith.
    • CHAP. I. Sheweth what the Small Pox and Measels are, and whereof it proceedeth.
    • CHAP. II. Sheweth to know the signs when one is infected, as also the good and ill signs in the disease.
    • CHAP. III. Sheweth the meanes to cure the Pox or Measels.
    • CHAP IIII. Teacheth what is to be done when the Pox or Measels are slow in coming forth.
    • CHAP. V. Sheweth what is to be done when the Pox are all come out in the skinne.
    • CHAP VI. Teacheth how to help divers accidents which chance after the Pox are cured and gone.
• Some other few additionall observations concerning the passages in this latter Treatise.
  • Severall opinions against wearing of Arsenick Amulets, as Preservatives against the Plague.
  • Experiments tried by my selfe.
  • The Cure of Diseases in Remote Regions.
    • The Calenture,
    • The Taberdilla,
    • The Espinlas
    • Camera de Sangre.
    • The Erisipela,
    • The Tinoso or Scurvie.
  • Other Observations concerning the Scurvy taken out of other Books.
  • Observations out of Sennertus, concerning the Scurvy.
  • A Water to make a man see within 40. dayes, though he have been blind seven years before, if he be under fiftie years of age.
  • The Plague Water.
• The Table for the Child-Bearers Cabinet.