A general treatise of midwifery. Faithfully translated from the French ... / [Pierre Dionis].

  • Pierre Dionis
Date:
1719
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Credit: A general treatise of midwifery. Faithfully translated from the French ... / [Pierre Dionis]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Book To Henry IT. was many Years marry’d to Catherine de Medicis\ but had no Children : wherefore he confolted his firft Phyfician, Fernelius, who hav¬ ing found out the Defed, fhewM him the Pofture he was to ufe when he lay with the Queen, who afterwards brought him feven or eight Chil¬ dren. Henry IV. alfo having no Children by Q. Cathe* riney his firft Wife, tho they had been marry’d a great number of Years, and had taken a great many Medicines without fuccefs, obtain’d a Di¬ vorce, and marry’d Mary de Medicis, who brought him feveral Children : which Thews us, that Bar- rennefs. has been thought a fufficient reafon for diffolving Marriages. Lewis XIII. was marry’d twenty Years to Ann of Auftria, who was never once with Child all that time: a thing not to be wonder’d at *, for the King car’d not for Women, and feldom liv’d with the Queen. But after that time, either out of a greater liking to her, or that his Confeflbr had enjoin’d him, by way of Penance, to lie with her-. The brought him two Princes: which ihews* that it’s not the Sacrament^ but the Husband’s do¬ ing his Duty, that gives Children. Barrennefs is efteem’d a very great Imperfec¬ tion and Defeft, not only in Women, but alfo in Men ^ for Eunuchs are fhunn’d and defpis’d by all Mankind, not only as good for nothing, but of a difagreeable Afpeft, that bodes no good where-ever thev come: and even in a Hen-houfe, «/ * Capons and Pullets are chas’d up and down, and peck’d by all other Fowls, that have an Averfion • to them, tho they know not what moves them to it. Thus, by the Appointment and Inftinft of Nature, every Animal that cannot engender, of bring forth, is defective and contemptible. ,J • ' X'
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