The midwives book. Or the whole art of midwifery discovered. Directing childbearing women how to behave themselves / [Jane Sharp].

  • Sharp, Jane
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1671
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Credit: The midwives book. Or the whole art of midwifery discovered. Directing childbearing women how to behave themselves / [Jane Sharp]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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SSS a a ee ee BookIl. The Mdwives Book. 87 fign of good or evil; and. that applications to the ftones are very effectual to the ftrength- ning, of the body.{t is then very needful for all clean,that they may fend forth good feed to make the work perfcét, and that Children may be long lived, which they cannot well gotten from corrupt Seed or unnatural blood, Alchymifts lay the caufe of all Childrens di- feafes on the Seed of the Parents ; as plants have not the caufes of their deftruétion from the Elements, but from their own Seed 5 as al= fo we fee, that when the Plague or any Epi- demical difeafe rageth, all are not infected, becaufe they have not that matter in them that will fo foon. take as it doth with others. That therefore the matter may be fit for the work of nature, there are two things very c2ufeth ill blood, and excefs in meat or drink choakes the natural heat, caufeth raw,crude humours, which will never make good blood, and ill blood will never make good feed, for every part hath its natural propriety to change the nutriment into its own likenefs, ‘as the Breafts chanze blood into Milk, the flones change it into feed[alwayes fuppoling fuch- | G 4 pre ttt at Peddie ge ot hs athe ati y : — ne a te a a ee Ne ra he a an Si cat la dolla boc ined tei estan add habla oer ated ba ats ig Bi alipeiletath
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