The expert mid-wife a treatise of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also, of the best ways and means of help in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for the various maladies of new born babes. A work more full than any yet extant: and most necessar [sic] for all bearing women, mid-wifes, and others that practise this art. By Mr. James McMath, M.D.

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The expert mid-wife a treatise of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also, of the best ways and means of help in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for the various maladies of new born babes. A work more full than any yet extant: and most necessar [sic] for all bearing women, mid-wifes, and others that practise this art. By Mr. James McMath, M.D.

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Macmath, James, 1648-1696.

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Edinburgh :: printed by George Mosman, and are to be sold at his shop in the Parliament Closs.,

M. DC. XCIV. [1694]

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE LADY MARQƲISE OF DOUGLAS.
• TO THE READER ESPECIALLY Bearing WOMEN AND Mid-wives.
• The First BOOK:
  • CHAP. I. Of the Fertility and Steri∣lity of Women.
  • CHAP. II. Of Conception.
  • CHAP. III. Signs of Conception.
  • CHAP. IV. Of the Infants Formation.
  • CHAP. V. Of a True, and False big Belly, and their Signs.
  • CHAP. VI. How to know the different Times, and a true Term of Pregnancy.
  • CHAP. VII. If Woman go with Boy or Girle, and if she have more than One.
  • CHAP. VIII. Of Superfoetation.
  • CHAP. IX. Of a Mole.
  • CHAP. X. Of a right Government in Pregnancy, against bad Accidents.
  • CHAP. XI. Of Vomitings.
  • CHAP. XII. Of Pains in the Back, Reins, Hips and Groyns.
  • CHAP. XIII. Of pains of the Breasts.
  • CHAP. IV. Of Incontinency and diffi∣culty of Ʋrin.
  • CHAP. XV. Of the Cough and difficult Breathing.
  • CHAP. XVI. Of the Swelling and Pains of Thighs and Leggs.
  • CHAP. XVII. Of Haemmoroids.
  • CHAP. XVIII. Of pregnant Womens Belly Fluxes.
  • CHAP. XIX. Of Courses, of Flooding, and Whites.
  • CHAP. XX. Of the Weight or bearing down of the Womb.
  • CHAP. XXI. Of the Dropsy of the Womb and Oedematous Swelling of the Lips of the Privi∣ties.
  • CHAP. XXII. Of the Venereal Disease in Pregnant Women.
  • CHAP. XXIII. Of Abortion.
• BOOK II.
  • CHAP. I. Of Labour in General.
  • CHAP. II. Of the Signs Antecedent, and Concomitant, of a Natural Labour, and the Non-natural.
  • CHAP. III. Of the Membranes, and Wa∣ters inclosed therein.
  • CHAP. IV. Of the Burden and Navel-String,
  • CHAP. V. Of the various Situations of the Infant in the Womb.
  • CHAP. VI. What the Woman is to doe, when her Time draws near.
  • CHAP. VII. What must be done, when the Woman falls in Labour.
  • CHAP. VIII. The Manner of expeding a Natural Labour, of one or more Children.
  • CHAP. IX. How to fetch away the After-Burden.
  • CHAP. X. Of the Causes and Cures of bad, and unnatural La∣bours.
  • CHAP. XI. The way of manual Opera∣tion in unnatural La∣bours.
  • CHAP. XII. Signs if the Child be Dead or Alive.
  • CHAP. XIII. To fetch the After-Birth when the String is broke.
  • CHAP. XIV. Of bringing a Child Foot∣ling.
  • CHAP. XV. How to do, when the Head thrusts out the Neck of the Womb before it.
  • CHAP. XVI. How to fetch a Child, when coming right it stops, be∣ing too big, or the Way strait.
  • CHAP. XVII. The Way of Delivery, when a Child presents the Side of the Head, the Cheek, or Face.
  • CHAP. XVIII. Of Delivery, when the Womb closeth about the Neck after the Head is born.
  • CHAP. XIX. Of a Delivery, when one or both Hands come with the Head, or when the one or both Hands offer alone.
  • CHAP. XX. Of a Delivery, when Hands and Feet offer together.
  • CHAP. XXI. Of a Delivery, when the Knees offer.
  • CHAP. XXII. Of a Delivery, when a Shoulder offers, the Back or Buttocks.
  • CHAP. XXIII. Of a Delivery, when the Breast, Belly or Side presents.
  • CHAP. XXIV. Of the Delivery, when se∣veral Infants present to∣gether in some of these different Postures.
  • chapter - 25
  • CHAP. XXVI. Of Floodings and Convul∣sions in Labour.
  • CHAP. XXVII. Of the Delivery, when a Child is Hydropical, or Monstruous.
  • CHAP. XXVIII. Of Delivering of a Dead Child.
  • CHAP. XXIX: Of Extracting a Mole and False Concepiton.
  • CHAP. XXX. Of the Caesarean Section.
• BOOK III.
  • CHAP. I. Of Ordering a Woman new laid, and Naturally De∣livered.
  • CHAP. II. Of Applications to her Birth, Belly, and Breasts.
  • CHAP. III. How to Govern Women in Child-bed, when there is no ill Accident.
  • CHAP. IV. How to put away the Milk from These who give not Suck.
  • CHAP. V. Of Child-bed Cleansings.
  • CHAP. VI. Of Floodings, or an immode∣rate Flux of the Cleans∣ings.
  • CHAP. VII. Of the Suppression of Child-bed Cleansings.
  • CHAP. VIII. Of the Prolapse of Womb and Fundament.
  • CHAP. IX. Of Bruises and Rents of the Birth, or outward Parts of the Womb.
  • CHAP. X. Of After-Pains or Grind∣ing.
  • CHAP. XI. Of Inflammation of the Womb after Labour.
  • CHAP. XII. Of a Belly Flux after La∣bour.
  • CHAP. XIII. Of Tumors and Ruptures of the Belly and others.
  • CHAP. XIV. Of Inflammation of New∣lighter Womens Breasts.
  • CHAP. XV. Of the Curdling and Clod∣ding of the Milk.
  • CHAP. XVI. Of Aposthumes of the Breasts.
  • CHAP. XVII. Of Excoriations and loss of the Nipples.
  • CHAP. XVIII. Of the Feavers of Child-Bed-Women.
  • CHAP. XIX. Of Right Ordering and Dressing New-born In∣fants.
  • CHAP. XX. Of Dyeting and Ordering the New-born Infant.
  • CHAP. XXI. Of Infants Weakness when Born.
  • CHAP. XXII. Of Contusions and Hurts of the Head and other Parts.
  • CHAP. XXIII. Of the Mould and Sutures of the Head being too open.
  • CHAP. XXIV. Of the Closed Fundament.
  • CHAP. XXV. Of Cutting the Tongue when tyed.
  • CHAP. XXVI. Of Pains and Grips of the Belly.
  • CHAP. XXVII. Of the Inflamation, Ulce∣ration, shooting forth, and Rupture of the Navel.
  • CHAP. XXVIII. Of Infants Scaldings.
  • CHAP. XXIX. Of Ulcers of the Mouth.
  • CHAP. XXX. Of Teething.
  • CHAP. XXXI. Of Infants Looseness.
  • CHAP. XXXII. Of Infants Vomitings.
  • CHAP. XXXIII. Of Epilepsy and Convul∣sion.
  • CHAP. XXXIV. Of Infants Ruptures.
  • CHAP. XXXV. Of Scabs on the Heads and Faces of Infants.
  • CHAP. XXXV. Of the Small Pox and Mea∣zils.
  • CHAP. XXXVII. Of the Venereal Pox.
  • CHAP. XXXVIII. Of keeping Infants from be∣ing Glied, Awry, Croo∣ked or Lame.
  • CHAP. XXXIX. Of a Nurse.
• A TABLE OF THE CHAPTERS.
  • BOOK I.
  • BOOK II.
  • BOOK III.