The accomplisht midwife, treating of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed. As also, the best directions how to help them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for ... indispositions of new-born babes ... / Translated, and enlarged with ... marginal-notes, by Hugh Chamberlen.

François Mauriceau

Date:: 1673

Credit: The accomplisht midwife, treating of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed. As also, the best directions how to help them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for ... indispositions of new-born babes ... / Translated, and enlarged with ... marginal-notes, by Hugh Chamberlen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Cea: ‘ ” ‘a6 DEE Difeates “Dib. a Man that hath difchare’d his Seed into her wom), And though we daily fee Pullets have Egos, and other Fowl], without the Cockstreading them, yet of thofe Eges there will never come Chickens, be- caufe the Male never had made.an impreffion on chem, nor given them this prolifick vertue, which is abfolutely neceflary to this purpofe. This may convince us that diverfity of fex is neceffarily re- quific, as well to thofe Animals, as to the more per- fect, which is Man. Diverfity of {ex would profit little, if copulation did not likewife follow; though fome fubtile Wo men,to cloak their fhamelefnels, would perfwade one that they were never touch’d by any Man who couldiget them with Child, as fhe of whom Averroes {peaks,;who:conceived in a Bath in which a Man had wafhe himfelf' a lictle before, and had cait forth his Seed into it, which was drawn: and fuckt in (as he faith ) by the Womb of this Wo- man : but this is aftory fitto amufe little children, Now to the end thefe different fexes fhould be obliged to.come to this touch, which we call Co. pulation, befides the defire of begetting their like; which naturally incites them to it, the: parts: of Men and Women deftined to Generation, are en- dued with a delightful and mutual atch; toftir them up to the agtion, without which it would be impoflible for a Man ({odivine an Animal) :bora for the contemplation of heavenly things, to joyn himfelf to a Woman, in regard: of the unclean- nefs. of the parts, and of the adi; «Andon the os ther fide 5 If Women did but think of a. thoufand pains and inconveniences which their great Bellies caule chem, ‘of the pains they endure, and. the wae 8) Hen All Ueliy ted Won ly Mid ay

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