The compleat practice of men and women midwives: or, the true manner of assisting a woman in child-bearing. Illustrated with a considerable number of observations ... Translated from the original / [Paul Portal].
- Paul Portal
- Date:
- 1763
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The compleat practice of men and women midwives: or, the true manner of assisting a woman in child-bearing. Illustrated with a considerable number of observations ... Translated from the original / [Paul Portal]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![i [ 263 ] womb the following plaifter, which much promoted the flooding : this plaifter is famous, for that it was ufed by our Queen, by the ad¬ vice of the Lady Foquet. Its compofltion is only of cerus ten ounces, of red-lead one pound, Venice loap ten ounces, and oil of olives two pounds; boil and mix it to the confiflency of a plaifter. It is excellently good to be laid upon the navel of a woman, eight days before-and after her delivery ; but (he muft keep her bed all the while: you mu it change it as often as it be¬ comes dry. It has divers other Angular vir¬ tues, not to be mentioned here, as being beyond our purpofe. I had this receipt from Dr de Beleval, Chancellor of the univerflty of Mont¬ pelier, and Mr. Pecpuet. Mr. Janfton fells abundance of it, it being of Angular virtue to promote the flooding in child-bed women, whereof you have an in fiance in this ; for no fooner was it applied, but a whitifh matter if- fued from the womb, fuppofed to be the rem¬ nants of the coagulated blood, becaufe the turning of the milk does not happen till be¬ twixt the fecond and Axth day ; befldes that, this was a watery fubftance. I ordered her for nine days fuccefllvely a clyfter, made of the emollient decodtion, mixt with three oun¬ ces of honey, which fucceeded fo well, that fhe felt not the lead fymptoms of a fever, and continues very well and fat flnce. S 4 Ojbser- / »](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30526127_0285.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
