THE CONTENTS.

SECT. I.

Chap. 1. Of God. Page 1

2. Of Nature. 4

3. Of Man. 6

4. Of the Soul. 8

5. Of the Faculties of the Soul. 13

6. Of the Humane Body. 16

7. Of the Formation of the Embryo. 20

8. Of the Animation of the Fœtus. 24

9. Of the Maturation of the Infant. 29

10. Of the Nutrition and Posture of the Infant. 30

11. Of the Membranes and Waters. 32

12. Of the Secundine or After-Birth. 33

13. Of the Umbilical Vessels, or Navel-String. 34

SECT. II.

Chap. 1. Of the Symptoms peculiar to the State of Maiden-Hood. Page 37

2. Of Virginity. 38

xx3. Of the Virgin-Disease, commonly call’d the Green-Sickness. 42

4. Of Love. 49

5. Of Copulation. 53

6. Remarks upon Copulation. 55

7. Of the Power of the Imaginative Faculty. 57

8. Of the Similitude of Children. 63

SECT. III.

Chap. 1. Of Conception. Page 70

2. Of the Signs of Conception. 72

3. Of the Diet and Regimen of the Pregnant Woman. 74

4. Of the Symptoms of the first three Months. 77

5. Of Vomitings, or Nauseating. 79

6. Of Fastidy, or Loathing. 80

7. Of the Pica or Longing. 81

8. Of Cholicks and Gripes. 84

9. Of a Diarrhea, or Looseness. 86

10. Of the Tooth-Ach. 85

11. Of the Head-Ach. 87

12. Of the Megrim, or Vertigo. 88

13. Of the Symptoms of the Middle Three Months. 92

14. Of Coughs. 93

15. Of Heart-Beatings and Swooning-Fits. 94

16. Of Watchings. 95

17. Of Pains in the Hips, Loins, &c. 96

18. Of Hæmorrhagies, or Bleedings. 97

19. Of Fluxes of Blood. 98

20. Of the Symptoms of the last three Months. 101

21. Of Dysuries, Ischuries, and Stranguries. 102

22. Of Costiveness. 103

23. Of Tenesms. 105

24. Of the Varices, or Vein-Tumours. 106

25. Of the Inflations and Tumours of the Legs. 107

26. Of Fissures, or Chops of the Belly. 108

27. Of Water-Fluxes. 109

xxi28. Of Acute Diseases incident to the Child-Bearing Woman. 110

29. Of the Debility and Weakness of the Fœtus. 115

30. Of Abortion. 116

31. Of a Legitimate Birth. 131

32. Of an Illegitimate Birth. 134

33. Of a Seven-Months Birth. 135

34. Of an Eight-Months Birth. 140

35. Of a Nine-Months Birth. 142

36. Of a Ten-Months Birth. 144

37. Of an Eleven-Months, and all posterior Births. 147

38. Of the Reasons why one Number of Months, Weeks and Days, is more Auspicious to Birth than another. 150

39. Of the Diet and Regimen of the Woman, before and about the Time of Birth. 159

40. Of the Natural Causes of Birth, and Pains of Labour. 161

41. Of the Causes of a sooner, or later Birth. 163

SECT. IV.

Chap. 1. Of Midwifery. 167

2. Of the Qualifications of the ordinary Midwife. 171

3. Of the Theoretical and Practical Knowledge of the Midwife. 174

4. Of the Qualifications of the Extraordinary Midwife. 178

5. Of the External Parts of Generation. 183

6. Of the Internal Parts of Generation. 186

7. Of the Pelvis. 190

8. Of the Bones of the Pelvis. 191

9. Of the Womb. 196

10. Of the Extensive Faculty of the Womb. 199

11. Of the Substantial Density of the Womb. 200

12. Of the various Local Motion of the Womb. 203

13. Of the oblique Situation of the Womb. 204

14. Of Touching or Handling the Woman. 207

xxii15. Of the various Uses and Advantages of the Touch. 208

16. Of the Genuine and Spurious Labour-Pains. 213

17. Of the True Method of Laying the Woman. 216

18. Of the Method of Extracting the Secundine, &c. 220

SECT. V.

Chap. 1. Of Birth. 227

2. Of Natural Births. 230

3. Of Natural Difficult Births. 231

4. Of Difficult Births, proceeding from External Causes. 233

5. Of Difficult Births, proceeding from Causes of the Mother. 235

6. Of Difficult Births, proceeding from Causes of the Infant. 239

7. Of Difficult Births, proceeding from Causes of the Membranes. 241

8. Of Difficult Births, proceeding from the Causes of the Pelvis. 242

9. Of Difficult Births, proceeding from Causes of the Bones of the Pelvis. 245

10. Of Difficult Births, proceeding from Causes of the Bladder and Rectum. 250

11. Of Difficult Births, proceeding from the Causes of the Vagina. 252

12. Of Preternatural Births. 253

13. Of Preternatural Births, by the Face’s being turn’d upwards; or bent forwards, and the Crown backwards. 257

14. Of Preternatural Births, by the Hand, Elbow, Shoulder, Knees, or Buttocks, presenting first. 259

15. Of Preternatural Births, by the Breast, Belly, or Back presenting first; and the Infants, lying transverse. 261

16. Of Preternatural Births, by the Feet presenting first. 264

xxiii17. Of Preternatural Births, by Two, or more Infants presenting themselves ill-turn’d. 266

18. Of Preternatural Births, proceeding from Causes of the Womb. 268

19. Of Preternatural Births, from the Womb’s inclining Forwards. 270

20. Of Preternatural Births, from the Womb’s inclining backwards. 282

21. Of Preternatural Births, from the Womb’s inclining to either Side. 287

22. Of Preternatural Births, proceeding from the Median oblique Situations of the Womb. 291

23. Of Preternatural Births, proceeding from complicated Causes, of both the Infant and the Womb. 294

24. Of Preternatural Births, proceeding from the Navel-String’s coming first, and that either alone, or with some other Member. 300

25. Of Preternatural Births, from the After-Birth’s coming first into the Passage. 303

26. Of Preternatural Births, proceeding from the Death of the Infant. 305

SECT. VI.

Chap. 1. Of the Diet and Regimen of the Puerperial or Child-Bed Woman. 309

2. Of the After-Pains. 313

3. Of the Suppression of the Lochia, or Child-Bed-Purgations. 314

4. Of the immoderate Flux of the Lochia. 317

5. Of the Acute Distempers incident to Child-Bed-Women. 319

6. Of the various other Accidents, incident to the Child-Bed-Woman. 323

7. Of the Constriction of the Navel-String, and the Swaddling of the Infant. 325

8. Of the Nurse and her Regimen, together with the requisite Qualities of her Milk. 329

xxiv9. Of the Diet and Ablactation, together with the farther Regimen of the Child. 333

10. Of the various Symptoms and Indispositions, wherewith the Child may be Born. 341

11. Of the Sundry Symptoms, and Diseases, peculiarly incident to the Infant after Birth. 346

12. Of the Acute Diseases of Infants. 351

SECT. VII.

Chap. 1. Of Preternatural Conceptions. 355

2. Of Superfœtations. 356

3. Of a Numerous Conception. 358

4. Of False Conceptions. 360

5. Of Moles. 361

6. Of Monsters. 366

7. Of various deformed Conceptions. 373

8. Of Imaginary Conceptions. 378

9. Of Sterility or Barrenness. 381

SECT. VIII.

Chap. 1. Of the Symptoms incident to the State of Widow-hood. 391

2. Of the Hysterick Passion. 393

3. Of the Strangulation of the Womb. 398

With a conclusive Application of the whole Work.

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FEMALE PHYSICIAN.