The store-house of physical practice: being a general treatise of the causes and signs of all diseases afflicting human bodies. Together with the shortest, plainest and safest way of curing them ... To which is added ... several choice forms of medicines used by the London physicians ... / [John Pechey].

  • John Pechey
Date:
1695
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Credit: The store-house of physical practice: being a general treatise of the causes and signs of all diseases afflicting human bodies. Together with the shortest, plainest and safest way of curing them ... To which is added ... several choice forms of medicines used by the London physicians ... / [John Pechey]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    eng: j ihe Ber. Women lowing Oi] of nd Die 1d Sto= le white he fad b nate nt and macha of tht Aronthe CHAP. CVL Of Mifcarriage. {VU teatriage is the Exclufion of an itnperfect or un- ripe Child, and confequently a Child dead in the Womb is not faid’ abortive till it is excluded ; fo thar whether alive or dead Child be brought forth not being ripe, nor having attained to. the juft growth in the Womb, iris to be termed abortive, The caufes of Abortion are fome Internal, fome Ex- giz. to the Humors, to the Child, to the Womb, and to the. Difeafe of the Mother. The Humors .may occafion Abortion , when they offend in quantity or quality. They offend in quantity, either by way of excefs or defect. The quantity is exceffive in a Plethora; for there being more Blood than is requilit to nourifh the Fetus, it flows into the Veins of the Womb, and is excluded. like the monthly Courfes, and {fo the Child comes away with it. There is too fmall a quantiry of the nutritious Hu- mor when the Child’s nourifhment is by any. means lef- fened, as by Faiting, whether volunary er forced ; and _ when Women with Child naufeat all forts of Food, or vomit it up again: Likewife, by reafon of a thin Diet in acute Difeafes, or by an iminoderate evacuation af Blood : Likewife, by reafon of extream leannefs of the In refpect of the Child, Abortion may happen if it be over great, fo that it cannot by reafon of-its bulk be contained in the Womb; and for this reafon little Wo- mien often mifcarry , elpecially if they are married to Men bigger than ordinary, whofe Children grow. very great, and find. not in the Womb a fpace large enough _ to contain them, till they. come to their perfect growth ; 7 ; : alfa,
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