The ladies physical directory: or, a treatise of all the weaknesses, indispositions, and diseases peculiar to the female sex ... To which is annex'd, a practical discourse on barrenness in women, and impotency ... in men ... Also of miscarriage ... Likewise ample instructions to midwives and nurses ... / By a physician.

Physician

Date:: 1739

Credit: The ladies physical directory: or, a treatise of all the weaknesses, indispositions, and diseases peculiar to the female sex ... To which is annex'd, a practical discourse on barrenness in women, and impotency ... in men ... Also of miscarriage ... Likewise ample instructions to midwives and nurses ... / By a physician. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$[8] By Itiel ,(which, to fay theTruth,nothing but want of Lelfurn bnared me from) fince by purfuing theDiredions I have here rln-^w’ Be as-ipegdily and compleatly cured, as if I had written a Treatife on it at Jarge. ^ • fame good Effedl will thefe Remedies likewife have m that many Girls are fubjeft Maturity, namely, about eleven, tw elve, or thirteen f ears ofAge, who often look Pale, Wan, weak^dull^lh^'f)f^^^^>^ C'sOTp/mOT, and are fometimes ak, dull, fhort-bi eath d, andunadlive; obferving only that Perfons about that Age mull take all the Medicines I ha4 ad¬ ored to, m fmallerDofes than I have direded for Women and hich as are arrived to Years of Maturity; as for Example, in- ftead of taking four of the Purging Pills for a Dofe, two or thi ee of them may be fufiicient at one time to purge a Girl of *=»tiJevenorTwelveiandif,er(hehasbeenp4c<lonc°, t.\ ice, Oi three 1 imes, as her Strength will allow, or as it may DC thought convenient, and is about to begin the Opening Poa’dcT, then inftead of taking as rnuch of it as will lie heap’d upon a Shilling twice a Day, let her take only as much of it as will he upon a Sixpence; And fo allb of the Corroborating hleLuary mftez^ of taking the Quantity of a large Nutmeg, let her take only the Quantity of a fmall Hazel-Nut for a jJofe twice a Day. _ But in all other Refpeds let the Direc¬ tions 1 have before given be pundually followed, and fne will foon be reftojed to a good ruddy Complexion, a chearful and adiveDifpofition, and healthy State of Body; and if Ihd Jhould happen to be troubled with Worms, as feveral of that Age are, thefe Remedies will intirely deftrpy them alfo, and cftabhfh her in Strength and Vigour to Admiration. But this Greonf.cknefs-like IndifpofiUon in Girls, will often fubmit to a lefs troublefome Courfe of Medicine, and I have of late Years leflored a great many Girls from Eleven Years of Age to Fifteen and upwards, labouring under this niJs-Mo Difcrder, to perfea: Health, by the Affiftance only of the Uterine Preps piefcribed in the Third Chapter of this Book, Page 20 following, direfting them to be taken only ? wer^fy^ Twenty-ii ve, or Thirty Drops in a Glafs of White iA'ine betimes every Morning, and at five or fix o’Clock eve¬ ry Evening for a Fortnight, three Weeks, or a Month toge¬ ther, ufing good F,xeraie every Day, and obferving not to eat any thing for about an Hour before and after each'Dofe. And thus the Uterine Drops, without any further Trouble, will for the moftPart accomplilli a perfect Cure without Purging or the taiiing any other Remedy whatever; for they immediate¬ ly ^ good Appetite to Food, caufe a regular and eafy$

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