Women - Diseases - Early works to 1800
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A general treatise of the diseases of maids, bigbellied women, child-bed-women, and widows : together with the best methods of preventing or curing the same / by J. Pechey.
John PecheyDate: 1696- E-journals
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The Ladies dispensatory: or Every woman her own physician . Treating of the nature, causes, and various symptoms, of all the diseases, infirmities, and disorders, natural or contracted, that most peculiarly affect the fair sex, in all their different situations of life, as maids, married women, and widows; under the following heads: Of contracted weakness, before marriage especially; with proper advice concerning it. Of the courses, their various irregularities, as suppression, obstruction, immoderate flux, suppuration, complication with other diseases, &c. Of the hysteric disease, or vapours, and all hypochondriacal disorders: also of the green sickness, and furor uterinus. Of the wh[i]tes, the piles, relaxations of the uterus and fundament, swellings, ulcers, and other uterine affections. Of the generative parts in a woman; with an account of generation and conception, and other curious particulars relating to the use of the marriage-bed. Of barrenness in women, and impotency in men, in all the possible known circumstances of either. Of the management of women with child, and the disorders attending pregnancy: likewise of moles, false conception, and miscarriage. Of the symptoms preceding, and disorders attending delivery, whether natural, difficult, or unnatural; with particular directions regarding the office of a midwife. Of the disorders consequent upon delivery, both in the breasts and elsewhere, both those immediate and those of longer continuance. Of the management of new-born infants, and the diseases they are usually subject to, from their birth till four or five years of age. With variety of proper remedies, in words at length, adapted to each particular case, agreeably to the best modern practice: by the help of which any maid or woman, who can read English, may not only come at a true knowledge of her indisposition, but be enabled to cure it without applying, or even discovering her condition, to any person living. Also, a compleat index, an explanation of difficult terms, and a copious preface, including a pathetick address to all fashionable mothers, in behalf of themselves and their tender off-spring.
Date: M.DCC.XXXIX. [1739]- Books
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The doctresse : a plain and easie method, of curing those diseases which are peculiar to women. Whereunto are annexed physicall paradoxes, or a new discovery of the æconomy of nature in mans body. / Written by R.B. &c.
Bunworth, RichardDate: 1656- Books
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The ladies companion, or, The English midwife : wherein is demonstrated the manner and order how women ought to govern themselves during the whole time of their breeding children and of their difficult labour, hard travail and lying-in, etc. : together with the diseases they are subject to (especially in such times) and the several wayes and means to help them : also the various forms of the childs proceeding forth of the womb, in 17 copper cuts, with a discourse of the parts principally serving for generation / digested into a small volume by William Sermon.
William SermonDate: 1671- Books
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De morbis fœmineis, the womans counsellour: or, The feminine physitian : Modestly treating of such occult accidents, and secret diseases, as are incident to that sex, which their too much modesty, too often to their sorrow, causes them to conceal from others, for a remedy whereof, they are here taught to be their own helpers; especially in these particulars: of barrenness and abortion: of natural, and unnatural births: of the suppression of the termes, the immoderate flux thereof, and other infirmities. Dicereque puduit, scribere jussit. With a brief appendix, touching the kindes, causes, and cures of dropsies, and tympanies of all sorts. / Translated out of Massarius de morbis mulier. By R.T. philomathēs.
Alessandro MassariaDate: 1657