Advice to the female sex in general, particularly those in a state of pregnancy and lying-in : the complaints incident to their respective situations are specified, and treatment recommended, agreeable to modern practice : the result of observation and experience : to which is added, an appendix, containing some directions relative to the management of children, in the first part of life / by John Grigg, practitioner in midwifery, surgeon to the Pauper-Charity in Bath, and late of his Majesty's Navy.

  • Grigg, John, active 1789-1814
Date:
1789
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Credit: Advice to the female sex in general, particularly those in a state of pregnancy and lying-in : the complaints incident to their respective situations are specified, and treatment recommended, agreeable to modern practice : the result of observation and experience : to which is added, an appendix, containing some directions relative to the management of children, in the first part of life / by John Grigg, practitioner in midwifery, surgeon to the Pauper-Charity in Bath, and late of his Majesty's Navy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 1= ] propriety be confidered as the sera of thofe pe- culiar ailments to wliicb the female conftitution is fubjeft, and of thofe changes, which, on account of their nature and tendency, become objeds of important confideration. Such is the frame of body and mind in many of the fex previous to this event, and fo much are both too often debilitated and relaxed by an inaftive and indul- gent mode of living, that it may be very eafily ac- counted for, if nature meets with'obfl;ru6lions in the performance of one of her moft falutary func- tions. Nor is it to be -wondered at, when this happens to be the cafe, if that difcharge which is intended by her for the relief and prefervation of the conftitution, fhould prove, by its being di- verted from its proper courfe, the fource of its moft formidable complaints. Therefore all the folicitude which tender affeftion excites in parents at all times for the welfare of their children, is more cfpecially neceffary in the commencement and whole powers of medicine, often abate or difappear on the regular eftablifliment of the nienllrual evacuation. Dr. 'Hcmiilton. The firft periods of mcnftruation, and the final ceflation by age, are two very important epochs in female lite, on- wliich much of their fucceeding health and longevity will hinge. Dr. Black's comparative Vicio of the Human Species, p. 327.,
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