Volume 1

The diseases of women with child, and in the child-bed: as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labours, with fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes, to which is prefix'd an exact description of the parts of generation in women / written in French by Francis Mauriceau, and translated by Hugh Chamberlen.

  • Mauriceau, Francis.
Date:
1736
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Credit: The diseases of women with child, and in the child-bed: as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labours, with fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes, to which is prefix'd an exact description of the parts of generation in women / written in French by Francis Mauriceau, and translated by Hugh Chamberlen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AN - •* f ’ / Anatomical Treatife t ■ p - * fi OF THE PARTS of a Woman deftined to Generation. “ 4 SINCE what Hippocrates very well notes in his Book of Human Parts, (that the Womb [ im¬ mediately, tho’ not remotely] caufeth mo ft Difeafes in Women) is not to be doubted, I think it not amifs to premife, not only a Defcription of the Womb, but alfo of every Part deftin’d to Generation in a Woman : And (according to Fernelius1 s Example, who forbad the ignorant in Anatomy to read his Works) I affirm, that ’tis impoffible truly to appre¬ hend what hereafter I pretend to teach, if thefe Parts be not perfe&ly underftood. I intend to be as brief upon them as I can, that Midwives may the eafier reap the Benefit, (being unwilling to confound them with a Multitude of Anatomical Controverfies, for their fakes here omitted, as wholly unprofitable to them *,) however, the Defcription I give, tho’ fuc- cindt, fhall be fo exadt, that join’d with the Figures wherein they are reprefented, will fufficiently inform them how to behave themfelves in the Art of Deli¬ veries. Thefe Parts are the Spermatick Veftels; as well preparing, as deferent or ejaculatory, the Tefticles