The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed

A Table of the Chapters.

The First Book.

• OF the Diseases and different dispositions of Wo∣men with Child, from the time of Conception to the full time of Reckoning, pag. 1.
• Chap. 1. Of the Signs of Sterility and Fertility in Women. p. 2
• Chap. 2. Of Conception, and the conditions necessary to it, 12
• Chap. 3. Of the signs of Conception, 17
• Chap. 4. What Generation is, and what is necessary to it, 24
• Chap. 5. Of Big-bellies and their differences, with the signs of the true and false great Bellies, 31
• Chap. 6. How to know the different times of Pregnancy, 35
• Chap. 7. Whether it may be known that a Woman is with Child of a Boy or Girl, and the signs whether she shall have many Children, 43
• Chap. 8. Of Supersoetation, 49
• Chap. 9. Of a Mole, and its signs, 53
• Chap. 10. In what manner a Woman ought to govern her self during her being with Child when it is not accompanied with other considerable accidents to endeavour to prevent them, 56
• Chap. 11. The means to prevent the many accidents which happen to a Woman during the whole time of her being with Child; and first of Vomitings, 68
• Chap. 12. Of the pains of the Back, Reins and Hips, 74
• Chap. 13. Of the pains of the Breasts, 76
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• Chap. 14. Of Incontinence and difficulty of Urine, 78
• Chap. 15. Of the Cough, and difficulty of of Breathing, 81
• Chap. 16. Of the swelling and pains of the Thighs and Legs, 85
• Chap. 17. Of the Hemorrhoides, 89
• Chap. 18. Of the several Fluxes which may happen to a Woman with Child, and first of a Loosnesse, 92
• Chap. 19. Of a Menstruous Flux, 98
• Chap. 20. Of Floodings, 102
• Chap. 21. Of the weight bearing down, or relaxation of the Matrix, which hinders a Womon with Child in her walking, and the freedom of coition, 116
• Chap. 22. Of the Dropsie of the Womb, and oedemitous tumours of the lips of the Privities, 119
• Chap. 23. Of the Venereal Disease in Women with Child, 123
• Chap. 24. Of Abortion, and its Causes, 129.

The Second Book.

• Of Labours natural and unnatural, with the way how to help Women in the first, and the right means of remedying the rest. p. 137
• Chap. 1. What Labour is, and the difference of it, together with its different termes, 138
• Chap. 2. The Signs which precede and accompany as well a natural as an unnatural Delivery. 146
• Chap. 3. Of the Membranes of the Infant, and the Wa∣ters, 151
• Chap. 4. Of the Placenta, and Umbilical Vessels of the Child, 161
• Chap. 5. Of the several natural scituations of an Infant in

• the Mothers Womb, according to the different times of Pregnancy, 170
• Chap. 6. What a Woman ought to do, when she is gone her full time, 174
• Chap. 7. What is to be done when the Woman first falls in Labour, 177
• Chap. 8. Of the natural Labour, and the meanes of help∣ing Women when there is one or more Children, 184
• Chap. 9. How to fetch the After-burthen, 189
• Chap. 10. Of laborious and d fficult Labours, and those against Nature, their Causes and Differences, together with the means to remedy them, 192
• Chap. 11. Of unnatural Labours, where manual Opera∣tion is absolutely necessary, what Observations the Chirurgeon must make before he goeth about it, 201
• Chap. 12. The signs to know whether the Child be alive or dead, 208
• Chap. 13. How to fetch the After-burthen when the String is broke, 211
• Chap. 14. To deliver a Woman when the Child comes Footling, 218
• Chap. 15. How to fetch the Head when separated from the Body, and it remains behind in the Womb, 222
• Chap. 16. How to help a Woman in her Labour, when the Head of the Child thrusts the Neck of the Womb forth before it, 225
• Chap. 17. How to fetch a Child when coming right it can∣not pass, either because it is too big, or the Pas∣sages cannot sufficiently be dilated, 227
• Chap. 18. How to deliver a Woman when the Child pre∣sents the side of the Head to the Birth, or the Face. 229
• Chap. 19. How to deliver a Woman when the Head of the

• Child is born, and the Womb closeth about the Neck, 231
• Chap. 20. To deliver a Woman when the Child comes with one or both Hands together with the Head, 232
• Chap. 21. How to deliver a Woman when the Child pre∣sents one or both Hands foremost, without any other part, 237
• Chap. 22. How to deliver a Woman when Hands and Feet come together, 241
• Chap. 23. How to deliver a Woman when the Child comes with the Knees, 244
• Chap. 24. Of a Delivery, when the Child comes with Shoulder, Back or Breast, 245
• Chap. 25. Of those Births wherein the Infant presents the Belly, Breast or Side, 248
• Chap. 26. Of Labours wherein several Children present together in the different Postures abovenamed, 250
• Chap. 27. Of a Labour when the Navel-string comes first, 255
• Chap. 28. Of a Labour wherein the Burthen either first offers, or first comes quite forth, 258
• Chap. 29. Of Floodings and Convulsions in Labour, 261
• Chap. 30. How to deliver a Woman when the Child is Hy∣dropical, or Monstrous, 262
• Chap. 31. Of delivering a dead Child, 265
• Chap. 32. Of extracting of a Mola, and a false Con∣ception, 271
• Chap. 33. Of the Caesarean Section, 275.

The Third Book. Treating of Women in Child-bed, and of the Diseases and Symptomes befalling them at that time: Of Children new-born, and their ordinary Distempers, together with necessary directions, for to chuse a Nurse.

• Chap. 1. What is to be done to a new-laid Woman, and naturally delivered, 288
• Chap. 2. Of convenient Remedies for the lower parts of the Belly and Breasts of a Woman newly delivered, 290
• Chap. 3. What Diet a Woman in Child-bed ought to ob∣serve, during the whole time after lying in, when it is accompanied with no ill accident, 296
• Chap. 4. How to drive back the Milk in those Women who are not willing to give suck, 300
• Chap. 5. Of several Diseases and Symptomes which happen to a Woman newly laid; and first of Flooding, 302
• Chap. 6. Of the bearing down and falling out of the Womb and Fundament of a Woman new-laid, 307
• Chap. 7. Of Bruises and Rents on the outward parts of the Womb caused by Labour, 314
• Chap. 8. Of After-pains which happen to a Woman new-laid, and of their several Causes, 317
• Chap. 9. Of the Lochia which flow from the Womb in Child-bed, whence they come, and the signs when they are good or bad, 322
• Chap. 10. Of the suppression of the Lochia, and the acci∣dents which follow thereupon, 330
• Chap. 11. Of the Inflammation which happens to the Womb after Delivery, 334
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• Chap. 12. Of the Inflammation of the Breasts of the new-laid Woman, 338
• Chap. 13. Of the clodding and curdling of the Milk, 342
• Chap. 14. Of Imposthumes of the Breasts of Women new-laid, 345
• Chap. 15. Of excoriation and loss of the Nipples, 349
• Chap. 16. Of tending Children new-born, and first how to bind, cut and swath the Navel-string, 353
• Chap. 17. How a new-born Babe must be washed and clean∣sed from the Excrements, as also how it ought to be wrapped up in Swadling-Cloaths, 358
• Chap. 18. Of Dieting and Ordering a new-born Babe, 364
• Chap. 19. Of the Indispositions of little Children, and first of their weakness, 372
• Chap. 20. Of Contusions, or bruises of the Head, and o∣ther parts of toe Body of a new-born Babe, 376
• Chap. 21. Of the Mould of the Head, and of the Sutures being too open, 381
• Chap. 22. Of a new-born Babe's Fundament being closed up, 385
• Chap. 23. Of cutting the Tongue when Tongue-ty'd, 386
• Chap. 24. Of Gripes and Pains of the Belly of a young Child, 388
• Chap. 25. Of the Ulceration, or shooting forth, or rupture of the Navel of a young Infant, 391
• Chap. 26. Of the Smartings, Redness and Inflamation of the Groin, Buttocks, and Thighs of the Infant, 395
• Chap. 27. Of the Ulcers (or Thrush) of the Mouth of an Infant, 397
• Chap. 28. Of the pain in breeding the Teeth, 400
• Chap. 29. Of the Loosness of an Infant, 404
• Chap. 30. Of Vomitings in Children, 406
• Chap. 31. Of a Hernia, or Rupture in Children, 408
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• Chap. 32. Of the Scabs which are upon the Head and Face of young Children, 412
• Chap. 33. Of the Small Pox and Meazels in Infants, 414
• Chap. 34. How to cure the Venereal Lues in Infants, 422
• Chap. 35. How to hinder Childrens growing squint∣eyed, 428.
• Chap. 36. Of the requisites and necessary conditions in the choice of a good Nurse, 430.

FINIS.