The accomplisht midwife, treating of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed. As also, the best directions how to help them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for ... indispositions of new-born babes ... / Translated, and enlarged with ... marginal-notes, by Hugh Chamberlen.

  • Mauriceau, François, 1637-1709
Date:
1673
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The accomplisht midwife, treating of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed. As also, the best directions how to help them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for ... indispositions of new-born babes ... / Translated, and enlarged with ... marginal-notes, by Hugh Chamberlen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that to give and keep is not good: but it is not fo in Conception ; for a Woman gives and cafts her Secd into her Womb, and there retains it. She may know whether fhe retains the Seeds, if the per- ceives nothing flow down’ from the Womb after Copulation : The Woman fome few months after perceives alfo fome fmall pain about her Navel, and {ome little commotions in the bottom of her Belly, caufed by the Womib’s clofing ic felf to’ retain the Seeds, and contracting it felf fo as to leave no em- pty fpace, the better to contain them, and embrace them the clofer. . The light pain ofthe Navel comes | from the Bladerof the Urine (from the bottomof — which proceedsithe Urachws, which is faftened 6 | the Navel) which. is a little agitated by that cons § traction and kind of motion that) happens to the | Womb, when itis clofed to retain the Seeds, and from the like agitation. comes allo thofe lictle coma | motions of the Belly. 3 | Thefe are thefigns of Conceptions, which may | be known at the moment:they happen; aud may be | yet more certainly known if you perceive the ins ward: Orifice exagtly clofe. Befides thefe fgns, | thereare others which cannot be known: till fomi¢e 9 ,,,' time after, as when the Woman begins ‘to have jf “ti loathings, having’ no other Diftemper, lofeth her: | appetite to meats: which fhe did love::: longs to cate | ffrange things, to which fhe was not. accuftomed, Le which happens according to the quality of the|f humours predominating in her, and with which |f her ftomach abounds: She hath often ‘naufeatings: and vomitings, which continue a long time :‘ the |} Tearms ftopping, no other caufe appearing, having’ alwayes before bean in good orders her Breafts! ise {well, |