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The female physician: or, every woman her own doctress. Wherein is summarily comprised, all that is necessary to be known in the cure of the several disorders to which the fair sex are liable; together with prescriptions in English of the respective Medicines proper to be given in each Case. Delivered in a Manner so concise, familiar, and intelligible, that every Woman of common Capacity may be able, upon most Occasions, to relieve Herself, by the Method and Remedies herein contained. A Work of great Utility to young Physicians, Surgeons, and Apothecaries. By John Ball, M.D. Author of the Modern Practice of Physic, and the New Practical Dispensatory, &c.
Ball, John, 1704?-1779.Date: 1770- Books
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A treatise on the diseases of women; in which it is attempted to join a just theory to the most safe and approved practice: with two dissertations on several passages in the Treatise on the diseases of women; in which it is endeavoured to remove some Doubts which have arisen concerning them: Translated from the French original; written by the late Dr. J. Astruc, Royal Professor of Physic at Paris, and consulting Physician to the King of France. Vol. III.
Astruc, Jean, 1684-1766.Date: MDCCLXVII. [1767]- Books
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A general treatise of the diseases of maids, bigbellied women, child-bed-women, and widows : together with the best methods of preventing or curing the same / by J. Pechey.
Pechey, John, 1655-1716Date: 1696- Books
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The ladies physical directory: or, a treatise of all the weaknesses, indispositions, and diseases peculiar to the female sex, from eleven years of age to fifty or upwards. BY Which Women and Maids of the meanest Capacity may perfectly understand the Symptoms, Nature, and true Cause of their own Illnesses, and readily know how to manage themselves under all their Infirmities With Proper Remedies in English prescribed for the Green-Sickness. Obstructions. Immoderate Fluxes, Hysterick Affection the Piles and every other Disorder or Distemper the Fair Sex are particularly liable to; whereby they may certainly and quickly Cure themselves, without Trouble, the Advice, or Knowledge of any other Person. To which is Annex'd, A Practical Discourse on Barrenness in Women, and Impotency, Infertility, and Seminal Weaknesses in Men. Directing How they may be infallibly cured, and those Women render'd fruitful, who have been deem'd incurably Barren for many Years; and such Men become able to propagate their Species, who through Imbecility, Seminal Disorders, &c. have for several Years thought impossible. With A Clear and very particular Account of Generation and Conception; and a Digrejon concerning the Method of Begetting Sons rather than Daughters, or of Daughters rather than Sons. Also Of Miscarriage in Women, and how it may be assuredly prevented, even in those who have miscarried nine or ten Times before; with Directions to Ladies how to conduct themselves during their Pregnancy and in Child-Bed, and how to cause a Safe and Easy Delivery. Likewise Ample Instructions to Midwives and Nurses, how to treat their Child-Bed Women with Safety and Success, and several Remedies proper to be administer'd, communicated without Reserve; as also Directions for the better Management of new-born Infants, so as more certainly to preserve their Lives; with a Dissertation concerning Suckling of Children, and Bringing them up by Hand. The Whole Illustrated With various Cases of Persons cured, proper Hints, useful Cautions, Observations, and Instructions, the like for General Benefit to both Sexes never before Published; and highly necessary for every Family in the Nation. By a physician.
Physician.Date: [1739]- Books
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The doctresse : a plain and easie method, of curing those diseases which are peculiar to women. Whereunto are annexed physicall paradoxes, or a new discovery of the æconomy of nature in mans body. / Written by R.B. &c.
Bunworth, RichardDate: 1656- Books
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The ladies companion, or, The English midwife : wherein is demonstrated the manner and order how women ought to govern themselves during the whole time of their breeding children and of their difficult labour, hard travail and lying-in, etc. : together with the diseases they are subject to (especially in such times) and the several wayes and means to help them : also the various forms of the childs proceeding forth of the womb, in 17 copper cuts, with a discourse of the parts principally serving for generation / digested into a small volume by William Sermon.
Sermon, William, 1629?-1679Date: 1671- Books
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De morbis fœmineis, the womans counsellour: or, The feminine physitian : Modestly treating of such occult accidents, and secret diseases, as are incident to that sex, which their too much modesty, too often to their sorrow, causes them to conceal from others, for a remedy whereof, they are here taught to be their own helpers; especially in these particulars: of barrenness and abortion: of natural, and unnatural births: of the suppression of the termes, the immoderate flux thereof, and other infirmities. Dicereque puduit, scribere jussit. With a brief appendix, touching the kindes, causes, and cures of dropsies, and tympanies of all sorts. / Translated out of Massarius de morbis mulier. By R.T. philomathēs.
Massaria, Alessandro, 1510-1598Date: 1657- Books
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Most dear and highly esteemed women, with truth and modesty, it may be averred, that I have cured many hundreds of your sex : and to prevent your languishing under several violent distempers: I do still continue the use of my most excellent art.
Draper, StephenDate: [1686]- Books
The diseases of women / by Trotula of Salerno ; a translation of Passionibus mulierum curandorum by Elizabeth Mason-Hohl, M.D.
Trotula.Date: 1940- Books
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The womans doctour, or, An exact and distinct explanation of all such diseases as are peculiar to that sex : with choise and experimentall remedies against the same : being safe in the composition, pleasant in the use, effectuall in the operation, cheap in the price / faithfully translated out of the works of that learned philosopher and eminent physitian Nicholas Fontanus.
Fonteyn, NicolaasDate: 1652- Books
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De morbis foemineis, the womans counsellour:, or, The feminine physitian, englarged : modestly treating of such occult accidents and secret diseases, as are incident to that sex, which their too many modesty, too often to their sorrow, causes them to conceal from others : for a remedy whereof, here they are taught to be their own helpers ; especially in these particulars, of barrennesse and abortion ; of natural and unnatural births : of the suppression of the terms, the immoderate flux thereof, and other infirmities ... with a brief appendix, touching the kinds, causes and cures of dropsies and tympanics of all sorts, as also a supplement touching agues and feavers, usefully applicable to both sexes. Whereunto is added, the mans councellour, healing of ruptures and particular diseases belonging to men / by R. Turner.
Massaria, Alessandro, 1510-1598Date: 1659- Books
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The ladies' friend, and family physical library. The midwifery in this edition is by question and answer. With thirteen curious engravings of the natural and unnatural position of the infant as it lies in the Womb. With a true Description and Cure of every Disease incident to married and single Women, as well as those of young Children. Though this Book is wrote in so familiar and plain a Manner to every one's Understanding, yet the young Physician, Surgeon, Apothecary, Anatomist, Midwife, and Chemist, by paying Attention may at least refresh their Memories, if not gain Instruction. This Work contains at least three Times more than any former Edition. The additions are, A Compendium of Anatomy, by Question and Answer. A Formulae for the Diseases incident to the white and black Inhabitants of the Indies, together with the medical Remedies that Country produces for each Disease. A Treatise of Cancers, with the Case of Mrs. Phillips, of Birmingham, describing the Remedy that the Author made Use of to extirpate a Cancer from her Breast, which weighed about seven ounces: She was upwards of fifty Years of Age. A Bilious Case and Cure of Miss A-, Daughter of an eminent Surgeon of Wolverhampton. A Philosophical Account of the Voice, Speech, Singing, Laughing, Coughing, and Sounds, &c. Of the Structure and Motion of the Muscles, according to the Doctrine of Sir Isaac Newton. Philosophical Doctrine of Pulses. The Medical Qualities of Milk, and of Whey, for Diseases in general. Of ... or, Pathological Aitiology, &c. The Method to recover Persons supposed to be drowned. The Dispensary of the Royal Hospital of Edinburgh, for the afflicted Poor. Translated from the Latin Copy. The fifth edition. By S. Freeman, M.D. of Kings College University, Aberdeen: and Member of the Society of Polite Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, London.
Freeman, Stephen, M.D.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The compleat doctoress: or, A choice treatise of all diseases insident to women. With experimentall remedies against the same. Being safe in the composition. Pleasant in the use. Effectuall in the operation. Faithfully translated out of Latine into English for a common good.
Date: 1656- Books
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Mulierum amicus: or, The womans friend : plainly discovering all those diseases that are incident to that sex only, and advising them to cure, either 1. By those receipts prescribed. Or, 2. By certain secret arcanums and specifical medicines. The author hereof living at the sign of the Golden Ball and Flower-Pot in Mark-Lane in Tower-street, and is lycensiate in physick, and student in chymistry; known commonly by the name of Nich. Sudell.
Sudell, NicholasDate: 1666- Books
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A treatise on the diseases of women; in which it is attempted to join a just theory to the most safe and approved practice. With a chronological catalogue of the physicians, who have written on these diseases. Translated from the French original; written by Dr. J. Astruc Royal Professor of Physic at Paris, and consulting Physician to the King of France. ...
Astruc, Jean, 1684-1766.Date: MDCCLXII. [1762]- Books
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Mille opifex rerum medicaminis author, & auspex primus lethaeos docuit depellere morbos : Be it known unto all men, that to this famous city of London is come Dr. Abraham Souburg, a renowned and well experienced physitian, cutter of the stone, and occultist; who by Gods assistance hath by his art, and skill, gotten great repute in the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and in several kingdoms and dukedoms.
Souburg, AbrahamDate: [1690?]- Books
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Beloved Reader, being lately come into this kingdom, I do according to my duty, make my self known unto you all by this present paper : which without the same, might otherwise be many years before I be known, and so hindred from the exercise of true Christian duties unto my Neighbours ... I have cured many thausands of women and maids.
Socburgh, Willemina Sasbout vanDate: [between 1690 and 1700]- Books
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The ladies' friend, and family physical library. The midwifery in this edition is by question and answer. With thirteen curious engravings of the Natural and Unnatural Position of the Infant as it lies in the Womb. With a true Description and Cure of every Disease incident to Married and Single Women, as well as those of Young Children. Though this Book is wrote in so familiar and plain a Manner to every one's Understanding, yet the young Physician, Surgeon, Apothecary, Anatomist, Midwife, and Chemist, by paying Attention, may at least refresh their Memories, if not gain Instruction. This Work contains at least three Times more than any former Edition. The Additions Are, A Compendium of Anatomy by Question and Answer. A Formulae for the Diseases incident to the white and black Inhabitants of the Indies, together with the medical Remedies that Country produces for each Disease. A Treatise of Cancers, with the Case of Mrs. Phillips of Bermingham, describing the Remedy that the Author made use of to extirpate a Cancer from her Breast, which weighed about seven Ounces: she was upwards of fifty Years of Age. A Bilious Case and Cure of Miss A, Daughter of an eminent Surgeon of Wolverhampton. A Philosophical Account of the Voice, Speech, Singing, Laughing, Coughing, and Sounds, &c. Of the Structure and Motion of the Muscles, according to the Doctrine of Sir Isaac Newton. Philosophical Doctrine of Pulses. The Medical Qualities of Milk, and of Whey, for Diseases in general. Of ... or, Pathological Aitiology, &c. The Method to recover Persons supposed to be drowned. The Dispensary of the Royal Hospital of Edinburgh for the afflicted Poor. Translated from the Latin Copy. The fifth edition. By S. Freeman, M.D. Of King's College University, Aberdeen: And Member of the Society of Polite Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, London.
Freeman, Stephen, M.D.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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The compleat midwife's companion: or, the art of midwifry improv'd. Directing child-bearing women how to order themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children. In six books, ... The fourth edition. By Mrs. Jane Sharp, ...
Sharp, Jane, Mrs.Date: 1725- Books
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Jac. Primerosii doctoris medici De mulierum morbis et symptomatis libri quinque : In quibus plurimi tum veterum, tum recentiorum errores breviter indicantur & explicantur. Cum duplici tam capitum quàm rerum verborum indice.
Primerose, James, approximately 1598-1659Date: Anno M. DC. LV. [1655]- Books
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The womans doctour : or, an exact and distinct explanation of all such diseases as are peculiar to that sex. With choise [sic] and experimentall remedies against the same. Being safe in the composition, pleasant in the use, effectuall in the operation, cheap in the price. Faithfully translated out of the works of that learned philosopher, and eminent physitian Nicholas Fontanus.
Fonteyn, NicolaasDate: 1652- Books
De puerorum morbis tractatus locupletissimi varia doctrina referti, nec solum medicis, verum etiam philosophis magnopere utiles / [Girolamo Mercuriale].
Mercuriale, Girolamo, 1530-1606.Date: 1584- Books
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The Ladies dispensatory: or Every woman her own physician. Treating of the nature, causes, and various symptoms, of all the diseases, infirmities, and disorders, natural or contracted, that most peculiarly affect the fair sex, in all their different situations of life, as maids, married women, and widows; under the following heads: Of contracted weakness, before marriage especially; with proper advice concerning it. Of the courses, their various irregularities, as suppression, obstruction, immoderate flux, suppuration, complication with other diseases, &c. ... Of the disorders consequent upon delivery, both in the breasts and elsewhere, both those immediate and those of longer continuance. Of the management of new-born infants, and the diseases they are usually subject to, from their birth till four or five years of age. With variety of proper remedies, in words at length, adapted to each particular case, agreeably to the best modern practice: by the help of which any maid or woman, who can read English, may not only come at a true knowledge of her indisposition, but be enabled to cure it without applying, or even discovering her condition, to any person living. Also, a compleat index, an explanation of difficult terms, and a copious preface, including a pathetick address to all fashionable mothers, in behalf of themselves and their tender off-spring.
Date: M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]- Books
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The ladies physical directory: or, a treatise of all the weaknesses, indispositions, and diseases peculiar to the female sex, from eleven years of age to fifty and upwards. By which Women and Maids of the meanest Capacity may perfectly understand the Symptoms, Nature, and true Cause of their own Illnesses, and readily know how to manage themselves under all their Infirmities. With Proper Remedies, in English prescribed, for the Green-Sickness, Obstructions, Immoderate Fluxes, Hysterick Affections, the Piles, and every other Disorder or Distemper the Fair Sex are particularly liable to; whereby they may certainly and quickly cure themselves, without Trouble, the Advice, or Knowledge of any other Person. To which is Annex'd, A Practical Discourse on Barrenness in Women, and Impotency, Infertility, and Seminal Weaknesses in Men. Directing How they may be infallibly cured, and those Women render'd fruitful, who have been deem'd incurably Barren for many Years; and such Men become able to propagate their Species, who through Imbecility, Seminal Disorders, &c. have for several Years thought it impossible. With A Clear and very particular Account of Generation and Conception; and a Digression concerning the Method of Begetting Sons rather than Daughters, or of Daughters rather than Sons. Also Of Miscarriage in Women, and how it may be assuredly prevented, even in those who have miscarried nine or ten Times before; with Directions to Ladies how to conduct themselves during their Pregnancy and in Child-Bed, and how to cause a safe and easy Delivery. Likewise Ample Instructions to Midwives and Nurses, how to treat their Child-Bed Women with Safety and Success, and several Remedies, proper to be administer'd, communicated without Reserve; as also Directions for the better Management of new-born Infants, so as more certainly to preserve their Lives: With a Dissertation concerning Suckling of Children, and Bringing them up by Hand. The Whole Illustrated With various Cases of Persons cured, proper Hints, useful Cautions, Observations, and Instructions, the like for General Benefit to both sexes never before Published; and highly necessary for every Family in the Nation. By a physician.
Physician.Date: [1742]- Books
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The ladies physical directory, or, a treatise of all the weaknesses, indispositions and diseases peculiar to the female sex from eleven years of age, to fifty or upwards. by which Woman and Maids of the meanest Capacity may perfectly understand the Symptoms, Nature, and true Cause of their own Illnesses, and readily know how to manage themselves under all their Infirmities. With Proper Remedies in English prescribed, for the Greensickness, Obstructions, Immoderate Fluxes, Hysterick Affections, the Piles and every other Disorder or Distemper the Fair Sex are particularly liable to, whereby they may certainly and quickly Cure themselves without Trouble, the Advice or Knowledge of any other Person. To which is Annex'd, A Practical Discourse on Barrenness, Directing How it may be certainly Cured, and those Women be render'd Fruitful, who have been deem'd incurably Barren for many Years; with a clear and very particular Account of Generation and Conception. Also Of Impotency and Infertility in Men; With Directions for their perfect Cure. Likewise Of Miscarriage in Women, and how it may be assuredly prevented even in those who have miscarried Nine or Ten times before. The whole Illustrated, With various Cases of Persons cured, proper Hints, useful Cautions, Observations and Instructions, the like for General Benefit to the Female Sex never before Published. By a physician.
Physician.Date: [1727]