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The complete midwife's practice enlarged ... With instructions of the Queen of France's midwife [Louise Bourgeois].

Date:: 1680

Credit: The complete midwife's practice enlarged ... With instructions of the Queen of France's midwife [Louise Bourgeois]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$1 ' : ) V ■ , 1 / | 1 ' . V I Theodore I ' / U 4 TV c&ufe the [welling of the Belly to fall. Ill' p • . jM Ome women have their bellies as much fwel. led after Delivery as it was before \ when any fuch thing happens* do as followeth. , W Take half a pound of Figgs, Barley meal,an<fe Bean-meal, of each four ounces,powder of Brie lot two ounces, Cyprefs nuts one ounce-, let thedpoi boyl all together in Smith's water, till it come ! to a thicknefs, then fpread it upon a linnen clothibffi and apply it warm to the belly, re-iterate this pc often, and the belly will fall to its wonted fliapdfr Or elfe, . lf: Take meal of Beans, Rice, and Almonds, of eft each two ounces, ponder of Brick one ounce fi] and a half, Bole*Armoniac two ounces and <! y half, Dragons blood one ounce and a half; oiB Cyprefs-nuts ten drams, Scarlet grains, three ounces, Galls half an ounce, oyl of Myrtles fix 0| ounces, wild Prunes, Rofewater, ana a pint and ^ a half-, boyl them to the thicknefs of a Pultefs^j and apply them as aforefaid to the belly. 't Pain after Delivery. I it - » i 1 Ake heed, that when you find the Patient _ in pain after child-bearing, efpecially on the right fide, that the rednefs, or high colour of the Urine do not deceive you, whereby you may be induced to give refrigerating medicines, ; finding the whole body to be hot, for fuch urine! proceeds from the greatnefs of the pain and com-j motion in the body, and the hot lying in bed. ,] Therefore;$