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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Chamberlayne, Thomas.
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London, :: Printed for Nathaniel Brooke at the Angell in Cornhill.,
1656.
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Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800.
Midwives -- Early works to 1800.
Gynecology -- Early works to 1800.
Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
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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 June 5, 2024.
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CHAP. II. Whether she have conceived a Male.
* 1.1IF she have conceived a male childe, the right eye will move swifter, and look clea∣rer then the left. The right pap will also rise and swell beyond the left, and grow harder, and the colour of the teats will change more suddain∣ly. The milk will increase more suddainly, and if it be milked out and be set in the Sun, it will harden into a clear mass, not unlike pearl. If you cast the Milk of the woman upon her Urine, it will presently sink to the bottom. Her right cheek is more muddy, and the whole colour of her face is more cheerful; she feels less numness: The first motion of the child is felt more lively in the right side for the most part upon the six∣tieth day. If her flowers flow the fourtieth day after conception. The belly is more acute to∣ward the navel. As the woman goes she always puts her right leg forward, and in rising she eases all she can her right side sooner then her left.