Volume 1

Cases in midwifery : with references, quotations, and remarks ? / by William Perfect, surgeon, of West-Malling, in Kent.

  • Perfect, William, 1737-1809.
Date:
[1781]-1783
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Credit: Cases in midwifery : with references, quotations, and remarks ? / by William Perfect, surgeon, of West-Malling, in Kent. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    CASES LII, and LIII. M AURICEAU has publifliedinftances of feveral women, who took therafelves to be with child, for whole years together, and ftiir ex- pected to bring forth.—And dionis fays, he has met with fome women, who would not be put out of that conceit; but took wind, which they felt in their bellies, for the ftirrings of a child : that, he has feen a great many fuits of rich bed cloaths made by women, who earneftly longed for children, and therefore would not fuffer any one to tell them, they were not with child; but, at laft, vanifhed in fmoke: the fame author re- marks, that thofe women, arc mod fubjecl: to thefe falfe big bellies, from the thirty-fifth to the fortieth year of their age, becaufe they then be- gin to have their courfes irregularly, and, either the