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
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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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    [9] Digeftion, and reftore a ruddy Countenance, lively Difpofi- tion, and fettled Health* But if it fhould happen, as it fcarcely will to oitfe in an Jiundred, that i\ii^Green-ftcknefs4ike Indijpofttion fhould not fubmit, or be compleatly cured by taking Thirty of the Ute¬ rine Drops dropp’d into a Glafs of White-Wine twice every Day for a Month or thirty Days together, as above directed, thenrecourfe ought to be had to the Purging PillSy Opening Powder^ and Corroborating EleSiuary in the Manner I have before advifed. ' Note zoell^ That it is highly neceflary for Women and Maids who are in perfedt Health, and have their Courfes regu¬ larly, to keep themfelves warm for two or three Days whilll they fioWj and drink hot Suppings to promote them, fuch as Wjhite-Wine Caudle, or for thofe of meaner Circumftances Ale Caudle, which being drank upon going to Bed, and alfo an Hour or two before rifing in the Morning, will caufe them to come down freely and in good Order, and fo preferve them in Health and Strength. A little mull’d White-Wine, or even hot Ale, with a little Spice and Sugar in it, now and then on thefe Occafions, are alfo of good Service. And now having briefly made known all that is neceflary for the Cure of either the Deficiency^ or the total Stoppage of the Terms^ wdiether in Maids, married Women, or Widows, as alfo {ox Hyfierich Affections in Women, as well as for the, Greenfiicknefis-likeDifiorder thatGirls are fubjedl to; I fhall con¬ clude this Chapter with a Letter I received whilfl: I was WTit- ing it, from a Gentleman in Hertford^ whofe Daughter, a young Gentlewoman, about feventeen Years of Age, had ne¬ ver had the Benefit of Nature, but was almoft ruined by the Green-fiichiefisfii€\T% exceeding pale, fhort-breath’d, and hard¬ ly able to move about, without any Appetite to^ Food, but de- iirous of eating Chalk, Cinders, Wall, lAc. which fhe could fcarcely be kept from, tier affedtionateParents had taken the Advice of feveralPhy ficians, and the young Lady took a great many Medicines to no Purpofe, till fhe took my Purging Pills and Opening Powder before mentioned, which happily cured her: She chanced accidentally to lake my Medicines thus: Her Father hCmgm London about iix Weeks ago, was with three or four others, Men and their Wives, invited by a worthy Gentleman his Friend, to dine with him; I being llfo defired, made one of the Company, and after Dinner, among other Difcourfe, the Ladies happening to talk of the refpec- live illnefies they bad fuffered, and of thelndifpofitions feve- ral of theirFriends laboured under, the Gentle- fum tpUf that Qppoitunity^ understanding I was a Phylician,