The womans doctour. Or, an exact ... explantation of all such diseases as are peculiar to that sex. With choise ... remedies ... / Faithfully translated.

  • Fonteyn, Nicolaas
Date:
1652
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Credit: The womans doctour. Or, an exact ... explantation of all such diseases as are peculiar to that sex. With choise ... remedies ... / Faithfully translated. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PEABO PPE tel EN Sn A sem — Te esi doer ee aNd eR St SS SSCA SER Lay Sem Thofe difeafes' that are ‘common, both to widowes and wives,’ both to barren wo- men, and women that are fraicfill)'as alfo to young Maids , and Virgins) proceed fromthe retentions ‘or floppage! of their Courtes, ‘as the moft univer{all 5 and moft ufuall'caufe; when'thefe come from them, : in a'dueand regularmanner, their bodies are preferved trom’ moft terrible’ difeates; bue otherwife, they are immediately {uty- je& to the falling Sicknefs , the'Palfie, the Confumption, the Whites , che Mother, Melancholy, Burning Fevers, ihe Dropfey inward inflammations of all the principal] parts, the fuppreffion of the urine, nauf2 cating , vomiting, loathing of meat, yex- ing and acontinuall paine in the Yead; arifing from ill vapours, communicated from the Matrix to the Braine. Wives are more healchfull theri Widowes, or Virgins, becaufe they are refrefhed ‘with the mans feed,and ejaculate their own,which being excluded’, thé caufé of: the evil] is taken away. This is’ eviderié from the Words of Hippocrates,’ who advifeth young | Maidsto marrie,' when they are thus trous bled; «that women‘ have ‘tones’ and feed, no true Anatomift’ will denice ;’ the woe 7 quantitie