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.

Of Vomiting.

IF it proceed from abundance of milk which the child sucks, you must take care that the child suck less, and often.

If it come from any ill humor contained in the stomack, besides that the Nurse must keep a

very good dyet, the Infant must be purged, with a smal expression of Rheubarb, giving it after∣wards a little Codignac to comfort the sto∣mack, mingling with it a little tablet of Diar∣rhodium, putting afterwards upon his stomack this plaister: Take of the pulp of condited Quinces two ounces, red Roses, Wormwood, and red Sanders, of each two drams, Oyl of Quinces as much as sufficeth; make a plaister of this, and lay it upon the stomack of the child.