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.

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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.

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Chamberlayne, Thomas.

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London, :: Printed for Nathaniel Brooke at the Angell in Cornhill.,

1656.

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Obstetrics -- Early works to 1800.

Midwives -- Early works to 1800.

Gynecology -- Early works to 1800.

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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a78521.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
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• THE PREFACE OF Sundry PRACTITIO∣NERS in and about the City of LONDON, &c.
• The Contents.
• illustration
• THE COMPLEAT MIDWIFE HER PRACTICE.
  • Of the Genitals or vessels dedicated to Generation in Men and Women.
    • CHAP. I. Of the vessel of preparation.
    • CHAP. II. Of the Parastatae, or vessels where the bloud is first changed.
    • CAAP. III. The use of the preparing vessels.
    • CHAP IV. Of the Testicles in general.
    • CHAP. V. Of the Tunicles of the stones.
    • CHAP. VI. Of the suspensory Muscles.
    • CHAP. VII. Of the substance and temper of the stones.
    • CHAP. VIII. Of the Actions of Testicles.
    • CHAP. IX. Concerning the Ʋtilitie of the Testicles and their parts.
    • CHAP. X. Of the vessels that east forth the seed.
    • CHAP. XI. Of the Seminarie bladders.
    • CHAP. XII. Of the kernelly Prostatae, or forestanders.
    • CHAP. XIII Of the structure of the Yard.
    • CHAP. XIV. Of the several parts constituting the Yard.
    • CHAP. XV. Of the Action of the Yard.
    • CHAP. XVI. Of the use of the Yard in general.
    • CHAP. XVII. Of the use of the parts constituting the Yard.
  • SECT. II.
    • CHAP. I. Of the Genitals of Women.
    • CHAP. II. Of those parts called Mymphs and Clytoris.
    • CHAP. IV. Of the fleshie knobs, and the greater neck of the womb.
    • CHAP. V. Of the Hymen.
    • CHAP. VI. Of the vessels that run through the neck of the womb.
    • CHAP. VII. Of the fabrick of the womb.
    • CHAP. VI. Of the preparing vessels in women.
    • CHAP. VII. Of the Stones in Women.
    • CHAP. VIII. Of the deferent or ejaculatory vessels.
    • CHAP. IX. Of the Actions and Uses of the Genital parts in Women.
    • CHAP. X. Of the action of the Clytoris.
    • CHAP. XI. Of the action and use of the neck of the womb.
    • CHAP. XII. Of the uses of the vessels running through the neck of the womb.
    • CHAP. XIII. Of the actions of the womb.
    • CHAP. XIV. Of the utility of the womb.
    • CHAP. XV. Of the Utility of the preparing vessels in women.
    • CHAP. XVI. Of the Utility of the stones.
  • SECT. III.
    • CHAP. I. Of the signes of Conception.
    • CHAP. II. Whether she have conceived a Male.
    • CHAP. III. Whether she have conceived a Female.
    • CHAP. IV. Of the Conception of Twins.
    • CHAP. V. Of false Conception.
    • CHAP. VI. How women with childe ought to go∣vern themselves.
    • CHAP. VII. How women ought to govern themselves, in the time of their going with childe.
      • She may use this liniment, or Pommatum.
      • Or this,
      • Take this one more Liniment.
      • You may use this Bath.
      • You may use this Oyntment.
  • SECT. IV. Of the formation of the childe in the womb.
    • CHAP. I. Of the mixture of the seed of both Sexes, as also of its substance and form.
    • CHAP. II. Of the three tunicles which the birth is wrapt in, in the womb.
    • CHAP. III. Of the true generation of the parts, and the increase of them, according to the several dayes and seasons.
    • CHAP. IV. Of the nourishment of the birth in the womb.
    • CHAP. V. Of the condition of the Infant in the womb in the sixth, seaventh, and eighth moneth.
  • SECT. IV.
    • CHAP. I. Of the situation of the child in the womb.
  • SECT. V.
    • CHAP. I. Of Midwifes.
    • CHAP. II. What ought to be observed, when she is neer the time of her lying downe.
    • CHAP. III. How to expell the Collick from. women in Childbed.
    • CHAP. IV. How the Midwife may know when the pains of travail do seize a woman.
    • CHAP. V. Of the falling down of the waters, a good while before the woman travails.
    • CHAP. VI. What the Midwife ought to do in time of travaile.
    • CHAP. VII. How to draw forth the Secondines.
    • CHAP. VIII. What may be given to a woman in travaile.
    • CHAP. IX. How to put the Womb again in its place.
    • CHAP. X. Against the extreme loss of blood, which happen to women, immediately after their delivery.
    • CHAP. XI. What is to be done to a woman, presently after her delivery.
    • CHAP. XII. Of women that have a great deal of bloud, and purge not, neither in their travail nor after.
    • CHAP. XIII. For those who have but a little blood.
    • CHAP. XIV. What is to be done to the Infant.
    • CHAP. XV. How to govern women in Child-bed.
    • CHAP. XVI. Of the bathings that a woman is to use for the first eight dayes of her lying in.
    • CHAP. XVII. How a woman ought to govern her self, in case a woman be to be deliver∣ed of two children.
    • CHAP. XVIII. Of the danger that a woman hath, to purge her selfe for the first days of her lying in.
    • CHAP. XIX. Of the second washing for women.
    • CHAP. XX. What is to be done to Infants, assoon as they are born.
    • CHAP. XXI. Of the last washing for Women.
    • CHAP. XXII. Of an Astringent for Women when they shall have occasion.
    • CHAP. XXIII. To make searcloaths for women.
    • CHAP. XXIV. To cleanse a woman before she rises.
    • CHAP. XXV. How a woman lying in of her first child, may avoid the gripings of her belly.
      • The Queen of France her Receit.
    • CHAP. XXVI. Certain precepts hindering the delay and, difficulty of bringing forth.
    • CHAP. XXVII. How the secondines are to be hastened out.
      • The Pills are these.
    • CHAP. XXVIII. Of Cases of Extremity, and first, what is to be done to a woman, who in her travail is accompanied with a flux of bloud, and with convulsions.
    • CHAP. XXIX. Of ordering the woman after she is delivered.
      • What is to be done to the Breast, Belly, and lower parts of the Woman in child-bed.
      • The Oyntment may be this.
      • This oyntment is also very good to keep the milke from clotting.
      • This fomentation is also much commended.
      • Of the choice of a good Nurse.
      • What is to be done in the extream pains of the childe.
      • What is to be done with those children that are troubled with flegme.
      • That which ought to he done to children, that have their cods full of wind.
      • How to take away the canker from the mouths of Infants.
      • What is to be done to children whose intestines are fallen.
      • To make an oyntment to strengthen the thighs and leggs of a child, and make him goe.
      • Of the relaxations of the Matrix, and the cause.
      • Of a disease that happens by reason of the fall of the Matrix.
      • To remedie the fall of the fundament in Infants.
      • Of the diseases of women, and first of the inflammation of the brest.
• THE COMPLEAT MIDWIVES Practice.
  • Of windy Tumours in the Breasts.
    • Of the watry tumour of the Breast.
    • Of the kernels in the Breast.
    • Of the Scirrhus of the Breasts.
    • Of the Canker in the Breasts.
    • Of the greatness of the Breasts.
    • Of the defect, abundance, and coagulation of the Milk.
    • Of the Diseases of the neck of the Womb: and first of the Disease called Tentigo.
    • Of the narrowness of the neck of the Womb.
    • Of Wheals, condylomas of the Womb, and of the Hemorrhoids.
    • Of the Ʋlcers of the neck of the Womb.
  • Of the diseases of the Womb.
    • Of the Womb being out of temper.
    • Of the narrowness of the Vessels of the VVomb.
    • Of the puffing up of the Womb.
    • Of the inflammation of the Womb.
    • Of the Scirrhus of the Womb.
    • Of the Dropsie of the Womb.
    • Of the falling of the Womb.
    • Of the ascent of the Matrix, as also of the Wounds and Ʋlcers of the same.
    • Of the pain of the womb.
    • Of the suppression of the Flowers.
    • Of the dropping of the Flowers, and the difficulty of their coming down.
    • Of the discolouring of the Flowers.
    • Of the inordinate flux of the Flowers.
    • Of the over-abundance of the Courses.
    • Of the Whites & Gonorrhea in women.
    • Of the Green-sicknesse.
    • Of the Suffocation of the Matrix.
    • Of Barrennesse.
  • Of the bringing up of Children, and of their Diseases.
    • Of the Diseases of the Head.
    • Bigness and swelling of the Head in little Children.
    • Of the diseases of the Eyes, Ears, and Noses in Children.
    • Of certain Ʋlcers in childrens mouths.
    • Of certain other Tumours called Paroulis and Espoulis.
    • Of the two strings under the Tongue of a Child.
    • Of the Cough in Children.
    • Of breeding Teeth.
    • Of the inflammation of the Navel-string in Infants.
    • Of the Worms.
    • Of the Convulsion in Infants.
    • Of the swelling of the Hypochondria in Infants.
    • Of Costiveness in Children.
    • Of Looseness in Children.
    • Of Burstness in Children.
    • Of the Inflammation of the Navell.
    • Of the jutting forth of the Navel.
    • Of the Stone in the Bladder.
    • Of the not holding of the Ʋrine.
    • Of the Intertrigo.
    • Of Leanness.
    • Of the difficulty which Children have to make water.
    • Of the Inflammation of the Almonds of the Ears.
    • Of Vomiting.
    • Of the Hicquet.
    • Of the pain of the Belly in Children.
    • Of the Smal-Pox in Children.
  • Certain other Instructions ground∣ed upon practical Observa∣tions, fit to be known by all Mid∣wives, and Child-bearing Women, &c.
    • A Second Observation of a Woman that had been in Travail nine dayes.
    • Of a Woman here in Town that bare her Childe elevent Moneths, and could not be Delivered.
    • Of the common opinion, that a Woman seven moneths gone ought to walk very much; and of the accidents that happen thereby.
    • Of a Childe which they thought sick of the Epilepsie, occasioned by the sickness of the Mother, and of the cause.
    • Of a young Woman who being struck upon the belly by her Husband with his foot, was in great pain, and could not be brought to bed without the help of a Chirur∣geon.
    • Of two Deliveries of one Woman.
    • Of a Woman that because she would not be ruled in her Lying in, dyed.
    • Of certain Women that bear Children and lye in before their time, and others at their full time, who grow bigg, and ful of humors, which causeth the death of the child presently after their Delivery, their children being nourished in their Bellies like fish, only with water.
    • The observation of a VVoman who was thought unable to bear, any more Children, yet con∣trary to expectation was delivered of one, and the reason thereof.
    • A good Observation in the choice of Nurses.
    • Of a VVoman which I laid two several times, and of the difference of her bearing of two children, proceeding from several causes.
    • Instructions of a famous, and dying Midwife to her Daughter, touching the practice of this Art.
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