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

  • Sharp, Jane
Date:
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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A ER RR ee ae PN BookIl. The Midwives Book. 102 Secondly, The pleafure fhe takes at that. time is extraordinary, and the mans {ced | comes not forth again, for the womb clofely , | embraceth it, and will fhut as faftas poflibly with maybe. snd | = Thirdly, The womb finks downto cherifh | the feed, and fothe be]'y grows flatter than it ee was before. a Fourthly, She finds pain that goes about tht her belly, chietly about her Navel and vind | LOWEE belly, which fome. call the Water- emns a | courte, he | “i _ Fifthly, Her, Aomach becomes very weak, ae | i] i” _ fhe hath no defire to eat her meat,but is trou- ! hi | bled with fowr belchings, i Sixthly, Her monthly terms ftop at fome _unfeafonable time that fhe lookt not for. Seventhly, She hath a preternatural defire to fomething not ht to eat nor drink, as “‘fome women with child have longed ‘to ba | bite off a piece of their Husbands Burtocks. { ye] Eightly, Her Brefis (well and grow round, | = ido} and hard, and paintul. sl | down q bath » rules ' | Ninthly, Sic hath no great defire to copus WORD, § | Jation, for fome cune the will be merry, or {We fad fuddenly upon no manitett caufe. in| puto } = Tenthly, She fo much loatheth her victuals, ' a. | iG chatlet her bac exercife her body alittle in oe rentioll |
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