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BOOK. V.
CHAP. I.
How women after Child-birth must be governed.
THere is great differences in Wo∣mens constitutions and edu∣cation; you may kill one with that which will preserve the o∣ther; tender women that are bred delicately must not be governed after the same manner that hardy Country women must, for one is commonly weak stomach'd, but the other is strong, if you should give the weak woman presently after delivery strong broth, or Eggs, or milk, it will cast her into a Feaver, but the other that is strong will bear it, but tender women must be tenderly fed, and nothing gi∣ven them that is of hard digestion nor yet