The compleat midwifes practice, in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man. Containing perfect rules for midwifes and nurses, as also for women in their conception, bearing, and nursing of children: from the experience not onely of our English, but also the most accomplisht and absolute practicers among the French, Spanish, Italian, and other nations. A work so plain, that the weakest capacity may easily attain the knowledge of the whole art. With instructions of the midwife to the Queen of France (given to her daughter a little before her death) touching the practice of the said art. / Published with the approbation and good liking of sundry the most knowing professors of midwifery now living in the city of London, and other places. Illustrated with severall cuts in brass. By T.C. I.D. M.S. T.B. practitioners.

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Title: The compleat midwifes practice, in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man. Containing perfect rules for midwifes and nurses, as also for women in their conception, bearing, and nursing of children: from the experience not onely of our English, but also the most accomplisht and absolute practicers among the French, Spanish, Italian, and other nations. A work so plain, that the weakest capacity may easily attain the knowledge of the whole art. With instructions of the midwife to the Queen of France (given to her daughter a little before her death) touching the practice of the said art. / Published with the approbation and good liking of sundry the most knowing professors of midwifery now living in the city of London, and other places. Illustrated with severall cuts in brass. By T.C. I.D. M.S. T.B. practitioners.
Author: Chamberlayne, Thomas.
Publication: London, :: Printed for Nathaniel Brooke at the Angell in Cornhill.,; 1656.
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Subject terms: Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800.; Midwives -- Early works to 1800.; Gynecology -- Early works to 1800.; Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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CHAP. XV. Of the Utility of the preparing vessels in women.

THe Utilities of these vessels are taken, first, from their original, and from their inser∣tion, the right vein rising from the hollow, and the left from the emulgent, as in men, that the more hot and purer bloud might come from the right vein, for the procreation of males, and the more serous and watry bloud from the E∣mulgent, for the generation of women.

The vessels also in women are shorter then in men, because the way is not so far to the stones; which brevity of the vessels is lengthened out by the many turnings and windings with which those vessels are endued. In the middle way those vessels divide themselves like a fork, the greater part going to the stones, carrying the matter for seed; the lesser is carried to the womb, where it scatters it self all along the sides of it, for the Nutrition of the womb.

As for the Arteries, they afford the bloud which is more full of spirits to perfect the seed.