CHAP. II. Of those parts called Mymphs and Clytoris.
THe Nymphae or wings are a membraine or filmy substance, soft and spungy, and part∣ly
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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- 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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- 1656.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A78521.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 26, 2024.
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fleshy; they are of a ruddy colour, like the comb of a Cock under his throat; they are two in number, though in the beginning they are joyned together by an acute Angle, where they produce a carneous substance, like the preputi∣um which cloaths the Clytoris. Sometimes these wings so far encrease, that there is many times need of incision; a disease common among the Egyptians.
The Clytoris, is a certain substance in the upper part of the great cleft, where the two wings concur. This in women is the seat of ve∣nereal pleasure: It is like the yard in scituation, substance, composition, and erection, and hath something correspondent both to the prepuce, and to the glans in men. Sometimes it grows out to the bigness of the yard, so that it hath been observed, to grow out of the body the breadth of four fingers.
This Clytoris consists of two spungie and si∣newy bodies, having a distinct original, from the bone of the pubes. The head of this is covered with a most tender skin, and hath a hole like the glans, though not quite through, in which, and in the bigness it differs only from the yard.
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The Cly∣toris.