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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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    a. Shews the Pubis, garnifPd with Hair. b. b. The two great Lips ft retched afunder ; like wife on the outfide covered with Hair, hut not within. c. The Clitoris. d. The covering of the Clitoris, refembling almoft the Prasputium, or Foreskin. e. e. The Nymphes. f. The Paffage of the Urine* g. The Fork. h. The Navicular Ditch. i. i. i. i. i. The Caruncles Myrtiformes, between which appears [the Vagina, in the Ohfcurity whereof may he obferved feme JVrinkles. k. The Anus or Fundament. CHAR J. Of the Preparing Veffels■. rHE Spermatick Veffels in Women, called Pre¬ paring, becaufe they prepare and convey to the Tefticles the Blood, of which Seed is engendred, differ not from thofe in Men, either in Number* Rife, or Ufe, but only in their Infertion, and manner of their Diftribution •, for they, as thefe, have two Veins and two Arteries, arifing from the fame Places* and doing the fame Work. Thefe Veffels are two on each Side, to wit* a Vein and Artery ; the Vein on the right fidearifeth out of the Trunk of the Vena Cava, and that on the left comes ever from the Emulgent: As to the Arteries* they both fpring from the great Artery under the E« mulgents. The Vein and Artery being fufficiently diftant in their Rife, join about the middle of their Progrefs, that fo they may pafs together to the Te~ fficle 5 but before they arrive, they produce a very B 2 con-