The compleat midwife's practice enlarged in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man containing a perfect directory or rules for midwives and nurses : as also a guide for women in their conception, bearing and nursing of children from the experience of our English authors, viz., Sir Theodore Mayern, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpeper ... : with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter ... / by John Pechey ... ; the whole illustrated with copper plates.

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The compleat midwife's practice enlarged in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man containing a perfect directory or rules for midwives and nurses : as also a guide for women in their conception, bearing and nursing of children from the experience of our English authors, viz., Sir Theodore Mayern, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpeper ... : with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter ... / by John Pechey ... ; the whole illustrated with copper plates.

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Pechey, John, 1655-1716.

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London :: Printed for H. Rhodes ... J. Philips ... J. Taylor ... and K. Bentley ...,

1698.

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"The compleat midwife's practice enlarged in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man containing a perfect directory or rules for midwives and nurses : as also a guide for women in their conception, bearing and nursing of children from the experience of our English authors, viz., Sir Theodore Mayern, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpeper ... : with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter ... / by John Pechey ... ; the whole illustrated with copper plates." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53913.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 12, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• frontispiece
• title page
• THE PREFACE By Several PRACTITIONERS in and about the City of LONDON.
• ADVERTISEMENT TO THE READER.
• Books lately Printed for R. Bentley, J. Phillips, H. Rhodes, and J. Taylor.
• The Contents.
• THE COMPLETE MIDWIFE'S Practice Enlarged. Of the Genitals, or Vessels dedicated to Generation, in Men and Women.
  • section
    • CHAP. I. Of the Vessels of Preparation.
    • CHAP. II. The Vse of the preparing Vessels.
    • CHAP. III. Of the Parastatae, or Vessels where the Blood is first changed.
    • CHAP. IV. Of the Testicles in general.
    • CHAP. V. Of the Tunicles of the Stones.
    • CHAP. VI. Of the suspensory Muscles.
    • CHAP. VII. Of the substance and temper of the Stones.
    • CHAP. VIII. Of the Actions of the Testicles.
    • CHAP. IX. Concerning the Utility of the Testicles and their parts.
    • CHAP. X. Of the Vessels that cast forth their Seed.
    • CHAP. XI. Of the Seminary Bladders.
    • CHAP. XII. Of the kernelly Prostatae, or Forestanders.
    • CHAP. XIII. Of the structure of the Yard.
    • CHAP. XIV. Of the several parts constituting the Yard.
    • CHAP. XV. Of the Action of the Yard.
    • CHAP. XVI. Of the use of the Yard in general.
    • CHAP. XVII. Of the use of the parts constituting the Yard.
  • SECT. II.
    • CHAP. I. Of the Genitals of Women.
    • CHAP. II. Of those parts called Nymphae, and the Clytoris.
    • CHAP. III. Of the fleshy knobs, and the greater neck of the Womb.
    • CHAP. IV. Of the Hymen.
    • CHAP. V. Of the Vessels that run through the neck of the Womb.
    • CHAP. VI. Of the Fabrick of the Womb.
    • CHAP. VII. Of the preparing Vessels in Women.
    • CHAP. VIII. Of the Stones in Women.
    • CHAP. IX. Of the deferent, or Ejaculatory Vessels.
    • CHAP. X. Of the Actions and Uses of the Genital parts in Women.
    • CHAP. XI. Of the Action of the Clytoris.
    • CHAP. XII. Of the action and use of the Neck of the Womb.
    • CHAP. XIII. Of the uses of the vessels running through the neck of the Womb.
    • CHAP. XIV. Of the actions of the Womb.
    • CHAP. XV. Of the Utility of the Womb.
    • CHAP. XVI. Of the Utility of the preparing Vessels in Women.
    • CHAP. XVII. Of the Utility of the Stones.
  • SECT. III.
    • CHAP. I. Of the signs of Conception.
    • CHAP. II. Whether she have conceived a Male.
    • CHAP. III. Whether she have conceived a Female.
    • CHAP. IV. Of the Conception of Twins.
    • CHAP. V. Of false Conception.
    • CHAP. VI. How Women with Child ought to govern themselves.
      • She may use this Liniment, or Pomatum.
      • Or this,
      • Take this one more Liniment.
      • You may use this Bath.
      • You may use this Ointment.
  • SECT. IV. Of the formation of the Child in the Womb.
    • CHAP. I. Of the mixture of the Seed of both Sexes, as also of its substance and form.
    • CHAP. II. Of the three Tunicles which the birth is wrapt in, in the the Womb.
    • CHAP. III. Of the true generation of the parts, and the increase of them, according to the several days and seasons.
    • CHAP. IV. Of the nourishment of the Birth in the Womb.
    • CHAP. V. Of the condition of the Infant in the Womb, in the sixth, seventh, and eighth month.
  • SECT. V.
    • CHAP. I. Of the situation of the Child in the Womb.
      • Explanation of the Third Figure.
      • Explanation of the Fourth Figure.
  • SECT. IV.
    • CHAP. I. Of Midwives.
    • CHAP. II. What ought to be observed, when the Woman is near the time of her lying down.
    • CHAP. III. How to expel the Cholick from Women in Child-bed.
    • CHAP. IV. How the Midwife may know when the pains of Travel do seize upon a woman.
    • CHAP. V. Of the falling down of the waters, a good while before the woman travels.
    • CHAP. VI. What the Midwife ought to do in time of Travel.
    • CHAP. VII. How to draw forth the Secondines.
    • CHAP. VIII. What may be given to a Woman in Travel.
    • CHAP. IX. How to put the Womb again in its place.
    • CHAP. X. Against the extreme loss of blood, which happens to wo∣men immediately after their delivery.
    • CHAP. XI. What is to be done to a woman presently after her De∣livery.
    • CHAP. XII. Of women that have a great deal of Blood, and purge not, neither in their travel nor after.
    • CHAP. XIII. For those who have but a little blood.
    • CHAP. XIV. What is to be done to the Infant.
    • CHAP. XV. How to Govern Women in Child-bed.
    • CHAP. XVI. Of the Bathings that a Woman is to use for the first eight days of her lying in.
    • CHAP. XVII. How a Midwife ought to govern her self, in case a Wo∣man be to be Delivered of two Children.
    • CHAP. XVIII. Of the danger that a Woman hath, to purge her self for the first days of her Lying in.
    • CHAP. XIX. Of the second washing for Women.
    • CHAP. XX. What is to be done to Infants as soon as they are born.
    • CHAP. XXI. Of the last washing for Women.
    • CHAP. XXII. Of an Astringent for Women, when they shall have oc∣casion.
    • CHAP. XXIII. To make Cere-cloaths for Women.
    • CHAP. XXIV. To cleanse a Woman before she rises.
    • CHAP. XXV. How a Woman lying in of her first Child, may avoid the gripings of her belly.
      • The Queen of France, her Receipt.
    • CHAP. XXVI. Certain precepts concerning the delay and difficulty of bringing forth.
    • CHAP. XXVII. How the Secondines are to be hastned out.
      • The Pills are these.
    • CHAP. XXVIII. Of cases of Extremity; and first, what is to be done to a Woman, who in her Travail is accompanied with a flux of blood, and with Convulsions.
    • CHAP. XXIX. Of ordering the Woman after she is delivered,
      • What is to be done to the Breast, Belly, and lower parts of the Woman in Child-bed.
      • The Oyntment may be this.
      • This Oyntment is also very good to keep the Milk from clotting.
      • This fomentation is also much commended.
      • Of the choice of a good Nurse.
      • What is to be done in the extream pains of the Child.
      • What is to be done with those Children that are troubled with Flegm.
      • That which ought to be done to Children that have their Cods full of wind.
      • How to take away the Canker from the mouths of Infants.
      • What is to be done to Children whose Intestines are falle.
      • To make an Oyntment to strengthen the Thighs and legs of the Child, and make him go.
      • Of the relaxations of the Matrix, and the cause.
      • Of a disease that happens by reason of the fall of the Matrix.
      • To remedy the fall of the Fundament in Infants:
      • Of the diseases of Women, and first of the inflammati∣on of the breast.
    • CHAP. XXX. Of Swellings from Milk.
      • Of windy Tumours in the Breasts.
      • Of the watry Tumour of the Breast.
      • Of the Kernels in the Breasts.
      • Of the Scirrhus of the Breasts.
      • Of the Cancer in the Breast.
      • Of the greatness of the Breasts.
      • Of the defect, abundance, and coagulation of the Milk.
      • Of the Diseases of the neck of the Womb, and first of the Disease called Tentigo.
      • Of the narrowness of the neck of the Womb.
      • Of Wheals, Condyloma's of the Womb, and of the Hemorrhoids.
      • Of the Ulcers of the neck of the Womb.
      • Of the Diseases of the Womb. Of the Womb being out of temper.
      • Of the narrowness of the Vessels of the Womb.
      • Of the puffing up of the Womb.
      • Of the inflammation of the Womb.
      • Of the Schirrus of the Womb.
      • Of the Dropsie of the Womb.
      • Of the falling of the Womb.
      • Of the ascent of the Matrix, as also of the Wounds and Ulcers of the same.
      • Of the pain of the Womb.
      • Of the Suppression of the Flowers.
      • Of the dropping of the Flowers, and the difficulty of their coming down.
      • Of the discolouring of the Flowers.
      • Of the inordinate Flux of the Flowers.
      • Of the over abundance of the Courses.
      • Of the Whites and Gonorrhea in Women.
      • Of the Green-Sickness.
      • Of the suffocation of the Matrix.
      • Of Barrenness.
      • Of the bringing up of Children, and of their Diseases.
      • Bigness and swelling of the Head in little Children.
      • Of the Diseases of the Eyes, Ears, and Noses in Children.
      • Of certain Ulcers in Childrens mouths.
      • Of certain other Tumours, called Paroulis and Espoulis.
      • Of the two strings under the Tongue of a Child,
      • Of the Cough in Children.
      • Of breeding Teeth.
      • Of the inflammation of the Navel-string in Infants.
      • Of the Worms.
      • Of the Convulsion in Infants.
      • Of the swelling of the Hypochondria in Infants.
      • Of Costiveness in Children.
      • Of looseness in Children.
      • Of Burstness in Children.
      • Of the Inflammation of the Navel.
      • Of the jutting forth of the Navel.
      • Of the Stone in the Bladder.
      • Of the not holding of the Urine.
      • Of the Intertrigo.
      • Of Leanness.
      • Of the difficulty which Children have to make water.
      • Of the Inflammation of the Almonds of the Ears.
      • Of Vomiting.
      • Of the Hicquet.
      • Of the pain of the Belly in Children.
      • Of the Small Pox in Children.
• A Full SUPPLY
  • CHAP. I. In what manner the Generative, or Begetting Seed hath its beginning; and particularly of the four Degrees of Concoction.
  • CHAP. II. The Generation of Man, compared with the production of Plants.
  • CHAP. III. What course Parents ought to take that they may beget wise Children.
  • CHAP. IV. The signs to know the several degrees of hot and dry in a Man.
  • CHAP. V. What Women ought to marry with what men, that they may have Children.
  • CHAP. VI. What course is to be taken that Male Children be brought into the World, not Female.
  • CHAP. VII. What means are to be used for preserving the Childrens wit, after they are formed.
  • CHAP. VIII. Some farther Considerations than have before been men∣tioned concerning the gradual progress of the Births Formation in the Womb.
  • CHAP. IX. Concerning the Notes of Virginity, and whether or no it may be Violated without the knowledge of man.
  • CHAP. X. Whether there may be a mutation out of one Sex into another; and of Hermaphrodites.
• title page
• TO THE Understanding Reader.
• RARE SECRETS Brought to LIGHT, Which for many years were locked up in the breast of that most Famous and Learned Physician, Sir Theodore Mayern, Physician to His late MAJESTY, King CHARLES the First, of ever Blessed Memory.
  • To know the time of Delivery, whereby the woman may know the better how to prepare her self.
  • Signs which precede Delivery.
  • To cause the Woman to contain the Birth.
  • An Emplaister to hinder the Monthly Flux in Women with Child.
  • An Emplaister for a Woman that is fearful of con∣taining the Birth.
  • Preparatory Oyntments to be used before the time of Delivery.
  • In case of Vomiting.
  • Regulation of Diet.
  • Other Advertisements relating to the several acci∣dents which may happen.
  • To accelerate and hasten the labour before the time of Child bearing, use this following ointment.
  • An Oyntment for the Midwifes hands.
  • After Delivery.
  • If the pains cease not with these remedies, use that which follows.
  • To streighten the Womb.
  • To streighten the Womb without the help of Swathe-bands.
  • A Fomentation to provoke the after-birth.
  • For the same.
  • A Pessary for the same.
  • For the same.
  • For the same.
  • To expell the Child, and after-birth, in time of great necessity.
  • To expell the after-birth, another.
  • To expell the Birth, whether alive, or dead.
  • Against pains of the heart.
  • To dry up the Milk.
  • For the same.
  • A Fomentation for the same.
  • Another.
  • An Oyntment against the curdling of the Milk in the Breast.
  • Against Fissures in the Breasts.
  • Another of the same.
  • Pain in the Breasts after Delivery.
  • An Opiate to be given to Childern newly born.
  • Against Barrenness.
  • For the same.
  • For the same.
  • To increase Lust, and to help Conception.
  • An Opiat for the same.
  • For the same.
  • An application to be made upon the Privities pre∣sently after Delivery.
  • The next day foment these parts with this following Fomentation.
  • The Bath in Summer.
  • The third part.
  • After she hath bathed, let her foment for one or two days the lower parts of her Belly.
  • A Fomentation for the Womb the second day after the Bath.
  • To cause the swelling of the Belly to fall.
  • Pain after Delivery.
  • Against the swelling of the belly, after Delivery.
  • Against wrinckles in the skin after Child bearing.
  • This following oyntment may be used before a Wo∣man lyes down.
  • Another.
  • A Pomatum for the same.
  • An Oyntment for the same.
  • Another.
• THE COMPLETE MIDWIFE. Her Practice Enlarged.
  • A second Observation of a Woman that had been in Travail nine days.
  • Of a Woman here in Town that bare her Children ele∣ven months, and could not be Delivered.
  • Of the common opinion, that a Woman seven months gone, ought to walk very much; and of the Acci∣dents that happen thereby.
  • Of a Child which they thought sick of the Epilepsie, occasioned by the sickness of the Mother, and of the cause.
  • Of a young Woman, who being struck upon the belly by her Husband with his foot, was in great pain, and could not be brought to bed without the help of a Chi∣rurgeon.
  • Of two Deliveries of one Woman.
  • Of a Woman, that because she would not be ruled in her Lying in, died.
  • Of certain Women that bear Children, and lie in before their time: And others, at their full time, who grow big, and full of humours, which causeth the death of the Child, presently after their Delivery; their Chil∣dren being nourished in their bellies, like fish only with water.
  • The observation of a Woman, who was thought unable to bear any more Children; yet contrary to expectation, was delivered of one; and the reason thereof.
  • A good observation in the choice of Nurses.
  • Of a Woman which I laid two several times, and of the difference of her bearing of two Children, proceeding from several causes.
  • Instructions of a famous and dying Midwife to her Daughter, touching the practice of this Art.
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