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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    Book!. The Atidwives Book. 13 | blood init nor feeling, yet they feel exqufitely | by reafon of the pannicles, and each fione hath — | two Mulcles fticking to their pannicles , to | Jift them up that they hang not too loofe. They F aectemperately hot and moilt, but the bloud ) that flowes to them is very hot, by which | La } means they draw as a Limbeck the matter of | ) {eed from the whole Body. Phyficians place | them amongft the Principal parts for the Ge- ncration and the prefervation of mankind. They are faftned to all the Principal parts by Veins, Arteries, and Pannicles, they are fub- ject to mulplicity of difeafes and diftempers. They are wrapt up in three feveral Coats,the outermott is thepurfe or Codcommon to them |e: §] both, it differs from other skin that covers the ils |} Body, becaufe other skin is finooth, this is li wrinkled, thatit may obferve the motions of | , et the flones, to extend or thrink with them, tie when they afcend, or defcend : they afcend ity im time of copulation, but in all violent heats, nol fOr Feavers, or weaknelS , or in old age, the at §}ftones hang down, which is alwayes avery thit Mitrong fign of much damage in ficknefs. the | Phe fecond Coat wraps up the ftones as the vit Mfirft purfe doth, but the fecond wraps them : Mearer, and is not fo wide as the firft; and | val, | 3 though the flefhy pannicle from which it ther @prings be thinner here than any where elf, loo! | yee