Culpeper's Directory for midwives: or, A guide for women: The second part. Discovering, 1. The diseases in the privities of women. 2. The diseases of the privy part. 3. The diseases of the womb. 4. The symptomes of the womb. 5. The symptomes in the terms. 6. The symptomes that befal all virgins and women in their womb, after they are ripe of age.7. The symptomes which are in conception. 8. The government of women with child. 9. The symptomes that happen in child-bearing. 10. The government of women in child-bed, and the diseases that come after travel. 11. The diseases of the breasts. 12. The symptomes of the breasts. 13. The diet and government of infants. 14. The diseases and symptomes in children.
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Culpeper's Directory for midwives: or, A guide for women: The second part. Discovering, 1. The diseases in the privities of women. 2. The diseases of the privy part. 3. The diseases of the womb. 4. The symptomes of the womb. 5. The symptomes in the terms. 6. The symptomes that befal all virgins and women in their womb, after they are ripe of age.7. The symptomes which are in conception. 8. The government of women with child. 9. The symptomes that happen in child-bearing. 10. The government of women in child-bed, and the diseases that come after travel. 11. The diseases of the breasts. 12. The symptomes of the breasts. 13. The diet and government of infants. 14. The diseases and symptomes in children.
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Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.
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London :: printed for George Sawbridge, at the sign of the Bible on Ludgate-Hill,
1676.
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Obstetrics
Gynecology
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"Culpeper's Directory for midwives: or, A guide for women: The second part. Discovering, 1. The diseases in the privities of women. 2. The diseases of the privy part. 3. The diseases of the womb. 4. The symptomes of the womb. 5. The symptomes in the terms. 6. The symptomes that befal all virgins and women in their womb, after they are ripe of age.7. The symptomes which are in conception. 8. The government of women with child. 9. The symptomes that happen in child-bearing. 10. The government of women in child-bed, and the diseases that come after travel. 11. The diseases of the breasts. 12. The symptomes of the breasts. 13. The diet and government of infants. 14. The diseases and symptomes in children." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A81130.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.
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Question 3. It is good to give Wine in a fit of the Mother.
Hippocrates and Avicen quarrel about this. The first allows Wine, because they are weak, and nothing sooner refresheth. But Avicen is for water, and forbids flesh, for they increase Seed and Blood.
But in the time of the fit, Wine is proper, and Avicen doth not speak of the fit, but of the diet out of the fit, when it comes from plenty of seed and blood; nor will a little Wine in the time of the fit get presently to the Womb.