De morbis foemineis, the womans counsellour: or, the feminine physitian, enlarged. Modestly treating of such occult accidents, and secret diseases, as are incident to that sex ... Also a supplement touching agues and feavers, usefully applicable to both sexes. Whereunto is added, the mans counsellonr [sic], healing of ruptures, and particular diseases belonging to men / [Robert Turner].

  • Robert Turner
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1686
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Credit: De morbis foemineis, the womans counsellour: or, the feminine physitian, enlarged. Modestly treating of such occult accidents, and secret diseases, as are incident to that sex ... Also a supplement touching agues and feavers, usefully applicable to both sexes. Whereunto is added, the mans counsellonr [sic], healing of ruptures, and particular diseases belonging to men / [Robert Turner]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    they want a peculiar Treatife, fo they require a peculiar and pro- J, Flip. 1. per Cure, as Hippocrates at De morbis large teacheth: For the wo-) mul.331. men do much ditter from], the men, from their begin=} + ning, and therefore do labour under,and §;,. fufter many Difeafes peculiar and Proper} © only to that Sex; which men can never, fuffer,neither are they incident to them. } Wherefore, Is it not requifite to call fuch}) infirmities womensdifeafes,and forthem ». to inftiture not onely a proper Treatife,} 9 but a {pecial Cure?Neverthelefs, it hath. been,(and perhaps {till is) contended a- gainit by fome learned and famous men, <vho would account this Treatife need-§ lefS, and feem to aver, that there isna ity -fuch vait diftin@tion to be ufed between the Male and Female; but their difeafes} having only refpe& tothe Sex, may bef, cured by one and the fame general meg), thod. And this indeed may be true ing, fome common and general Difeafes,uftrg), al to both Sexes ; but in fuch infirmitied,’ as appertain only to the women,and arti: not atall contingent tothe men, theif,” falfity plainly appears. And thereforg, Galen, Hippocrates, and Diofcorides, ant man!
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