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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    The Midwives Book’ lannot eafily goto fool, when they ftrain to Jotheir butinefs, they prefs thofe kernels and. pmetimes void fore Seed,and alfo mult needs hake fome-water, more or lefs whenthey go I fiool. Thefe kernels compafs the vedfcls fat carry the feed, and through the midftof fhefe paffeth the water or Urine pipe, or com- hon paflage both forfeed and Urine, or con- “$ait of the Yard. Atthe mouth of this. con “ fait where the carrying, veffels meet with it, here isa thinskin that keeps the veifels for jy; ed that are likea {punge in nature, that they hed not forth the feed again{t mens will. Buc his skin is full of holes, which open by the \ ] a ? fine feed finds its way ont, for it isa thin {pine, || Bnd the rather by reafon of motion, and pafles * Bike Quickiilver through a picee of Jeather 5 Ekin than in a piece of leather , unlefsitbe enin fome perfons after death, who were > Patheir lifetime troubled with a great running Bfthe Reins asit is called, but properly an m- yfoluntary thedding of the Seed, becauife thefe | Poles are become fo great, that the fubtile feed fannot be kept back by its the reinsare to ‘i parte the Urine from the blood, and to fend ‘I hat to the bladder by the conduits of Urine, Tatnot to fend forth feed or to provide it, G thac