Aristotle's compleat and experienc'd midwife in two parts : I. Guide for childbearing women ... together with suitable remedies for the various indispositions of new-born infants. II. Proper and safe remedies for the curing all those distempers that are incident to the female sex ... a work ... highly necessary for all surgeons, midwives, nurses, and child-bearing women / made English by W[illiam] S[almon], M.D.

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[1749?]
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Credit: Aristotle's compleat and experienc'd midwife in two parts : I. Guide for childbearing women ... together with suitable remedies for the various indispositions of new-born infants. II. Proper and safe remedies for the curing all those distempers that are incident to the female sex ... a work ... highly necessary for all surgeons, midwives, nurses, and child-bearing women / made English by W[illiam] S[almon], M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Che ExperienOd Midwife. 145 | her internal or external: The internal Caufe is either in” | trumental or material ; in the Blood or in the Womb’ | Phe Blood: may be faulty two Ways, in Quantity orin © | Quality ; in Quantity when it is fo confumed? that there gnot an Overplus left, as in Viragoes and all viril Wos | nen, who through their Heat and Strength. of Nature, — ligeft and confume-all their belt Nourifhment : But Wo- © 4 nen of this Conftitution, are father to be accounted 4a- | Bbropophage : that is, Wo-Men-<aters, than Women- | preeders ; becaufe they confume one of the Principles of | Generation, which gives a Being to the World, i.¢.the | nenftruous Blood. The Blood may alfobe confumed, and the Terms ftayed by much bleeding at the Nofe: and = | ikewife by a Flux of the Hemorrhoids, or by a Dyfen- | teria, Evacuations, and’chronical and continual Difeafes, |] But fecondiy, the Matter may be vicious in Quality, as _ fit be fanguineous, flegmatical, bileous,.or melancho- — Al fous; each of thefe, if they offend in'Grofinefs, will 7 taufe an Obftruction in the Veins, : “at The Womb alfo may be in the Fault divers Ways; as” by the Narrownefs of the Veinsand Pallages by Apolt- | umes, Tumours, Ulcers, and by ever-much Cold and Heat, the one vitiating the A@ion, and the other confu- 9) ming the Matter : alfo by an evil Compofition of the Mat- J fer: alfo by an evil Compofition of the uterine Parts; by the Neck of the Womb being turned afide: and | fometimes (though but rarely) by a Membrane or Ex- frefcence of Flefh, growing about the Womb, Les | The external Canfe may be Heat, or Drinefs of the | § Air, immoderate Watching, great Labour, violent Motion, | hereby the Matter.is 0 confumed, and the Body is foex- haufted, that there is no redundant Blood remaining to be — tpelied : whence it is recorded of the Amazons, that being © active, and always in Motion, they had little or no ~ Monthly Fluxes: It may alfo be caufed by Cold, and moit frequently it is fo, making the Blood vifcons and grofe, - ‘ . G 5- con- Wi