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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    The Peantlator tothe Reader, xv- advife the good Women, not fo readily to blame thofe Mid-- wives. who are not backward in dangerous Cafes to defire. Advice 5 left it coft them dear, by difcouraging, and forcing . them to.prefume beyond their Knowledge or Strength, e/pe- cially when too many are over-confident. | 2 Thofe few things wherein I diffent from my Author, if of dangerous Confequence, are noted in the Margent; if not, are left tothe Difcretion of the Reader. | I confe/s he 1s often too prolix ; a Fault which the French much affect 5 however, I chofe rather to tranflate him ace cording to his own Stile, than contratt him; and alfo to heave unaltered fome things not very well expreffed, being of {mall Moment. I find alfo he diftingxifhes not between the Words Plaifter and Ointment, but ufes them promif~ cuoufly one for the other. | Inthe 17th Chapter of the fecond Book, my Author puftifies the faftning Hooks in the Head of a Child that comes right, and yet becaufe of fome Difficulty or Difprom portion, cannot pafs; which I confe/s has been, and is yet the Prattice of the moft expert. Artifts in Midwifery, nor only in England, but throughout Europe, and has much caufed the Report, That where a Man comes, one or both muft neceffarily die; and w the reafon of forbearing to fend, till the Child is dead, or the Mother dy- ing. But Ican neither approve of that Prattice, nor thofe Delays, becaufe my Father, Brothers, and my Self (tho? none elfe in Kurope as I know] have, by God’s Bleffing, and our Induftry, attained to, and long prattifed a way to deliver Women in this Cafe, without any Prejudice-to thems or their Infants 3 tho’ all others (being obliged, for want of Such an Expedient, to ufe the common way) do, and muft endanger, if not deftroy one or both with Hooks. By this manual Operation a Labour muy be difpatched, (on the leaft Difficulty) with fewer Pains, and fooner, to the great Advantage, and without Danger, both of Wo- man and Child. If therefore the ufe of Hooks by Phyficians and Chirurgeons, be condemned, (without thereto neeeffita- ted through forme monftrows Birth) we can much em ASN prove
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