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

Date:: 1686

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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$rable and grievous,in fo much that their come- Je: B y rt ‘ trom the very Womb ; certainly Phyfi- 9] cians in the {tudy of their Cure {hall not f only gain great efteem and honour, but. much profit. This therefore induceth me _ to render this Treatife plainly in the) felves may be their own Phydicians. The firft thing therefore here intend= J fy ed to be handled,is of the Conception vf | man;and therein the firit thing to be noted,:is the diftinétion and’ difference | of the Sexes of man and -woman ‘with: out which no conception can be-had;nor the Courfé of nature maintain’d; of which,that it may be fully and perfectly | underftood by you,we fhall {peak plain- ly.1fay «therefore as the Philofophers | teach, that all things whatioever thas | generative, incorruptible, eternal, as Ins telligences and Heaven ; others genera= tive,corruptible, and momentary , as’ thefe inferiorHlements,and thofe things | which confit of the Elements. ve Although the Elements as to the whole, are ingenerative andncorruptis 7 : ble, |$

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