Volume 1

The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. To which is prefix'd an exact description of the parts of generation in women ... / [François Mauriceau].

  • François Mauriceau
Date:
1718
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Credit: The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. To which is prefix'd an exact description of the parts of generation in women ... / [François Mauriceau]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not prefent it to any other, without being guil- ty of a domeftick Larciny, By giving it you, I am liberal of your proper Goods; or rather, I rendér you an Account only of the Talent you entrufted me with to improve: I mean, . the. true Precepts ofthis noble Art of Chivurge-. ry, of which you havea Knowledge and Expe- rience fo perfe&t, that every one is obliged o- penly to confefs, that of you alone, amongft. all the Chirurgeons of Europe, it may be juft- ly faid, Vos Sol, alios umbra vegit. I fhall refrain, Gentlemen, the. praifing you upon this Subject, for (befides it’s deferving a Pen more able than mine, to acquit it felf according to your Merits) I fear, I fhould be filenc’d for my fo doing, by. fuch as would al- ledge, that with which he once was reproach- ed, who undertook to praife. Hercules, by pub- lifhing his Heroick A€tions to the People of Lacedemonia:. Who (anfwer’d one) does not know him? aud efteem him to be in the Number of the immortal Gods? So likewife may it be — faid to me; Who knoweth not the Maftera. Chirurgeons of ‘Paris? Is it not manifeft that you.are that fruitful Spring, to which they come. from all Places of Europe, to draw the, Perfection of fo fair an Art? And whither many foreign Princes and Princeffes, are obli- ged to have Recourfe, for the Prefervation and Recovery. of their Health, which they _ believe cannot be obtained fo eafily, and with fo much Affurance from any. other,. as..from you: Is it not known likewife, that.our ei
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