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To the Reader.
Freindly Reader.
COnsidering the many sad inconveniences which happen unto Child-bearing women, in their severall moneths of bearing, and knowing my self to have come by that pas∣sage into this world, I thought it the duty of a Christian, to discover the helps and remedies that might be afforded them, both to secure their issue from abortment, and to enable them to goe thorough their whole time, and to facilitate their birth, without danger of themselves or their issue; as also to set down their government or their Nurses after delivery, hoping I should doe an acceptable service, to engage posterity, in this task; as also to set down Preservatives against the Plague and small Pox, with certaine experimented Re∣medies fit for that purpose: and having, just as my last sheets of these two books were passing the Presse, certain other Collections communicated to me, concerning some other approved Secrets, as namely, the Experiments of a great Navigator of this Nation, presented to our late Queen Elizabeths own hands; with other cheif selected Collections by a late Doctor of Physick of this Nation; I was unwilling to suffer two such peices of very good concernment, to perish in obscurity under my hands; ho∣ping, as they were carefully collected, and faithfully pre∣sented, they shall receive gratefull acceptance, from your freind
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