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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    1. vee The Experienctd Midrofe. E ‘of the Womb None, does net. “exceed three: lie sand the Breadth thereof is near about the fame, and “Thicknefs. of the} Little Finger, when the Womar “not pregnant ; ‘but when the Woman is with Child ~ becomes of a prodigious Greatnels ; and the nearer: ‘is to her Delivery,-the more is the Womb extended It is not without Reafon then that Nature (or the G of Nature rather) has made the Womb of a membrane ‘Subftance ; for thereby it does the eafier open to cone ‘and is gradually dilated from the Growth of the Fw ‘or young One 5 and in afterwards contraéted and cle - again, to thruft forth both i¢ and the Aftersbutden # ‘then to retire to its primitive feat. Hence alfoit is ie to expel any noxious Humours, which may fometi happen to be contained within it, Before I have done with the Womb, ehioh 3 is ‘the F of Generation, and onghr therefore to be the more] ' ticularly taken Care of, (For as the Seeds of Plants” ~ produce no Fruits, nor {pring unlefs fown in Ground f per to waxen and excite their vegetative Virtue; Vikewife the Seed of Man, tho’ potentially containing “all the Parts ofa Child, would never produce fo adm ~ ble an Effect, if it were not caft into that fruitful F _ of Nature, the Womb.) I fhall proceed to a more’ pa cular Defcription of the Parts thereof, and the Ules _ Which. Nature, has defign’d them. The Womb then jis compofed of ' various ‘fimilary z ‘ae is, of Membranes, Vein, Arteries, and Nerves. “Membranes are two, and they compofe the principal F ‘ofits Body, the outmoft cf which arifed from the the! | titonum, of Cawl, and is very thin, without, {moo *, but with in ‘unequal, that it may the better cleave to! th “Womb, asit were flethy and thicker than any elfe “meet within the Body, when a Woman is not pregnan “and is interwoven with all forts of Fibres, or fmall Strin (oak it may the better.faffer the Extenfion of the Chi ave the Waters caufed during Pregnancy 3 and ‘alfortt “it ‘may the cafier clofe again after Delivery. agi !