The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. To which is prefix'd an Anatomical treatise ... Written in French / ... Translated by Hugh Chamberlen, M. D.

  • Mauriceau, François, 1637-1709
Date:
1697
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Credit: The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. To which is prefix'd an Anatomical treatise ... Written in French / ... Translated by Hugh Chamberlen, M. D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “Some of thele Barrennefles may fometimes be cured by removing the Caufes, and procuring the Difpofitions we have faid are neceflary to Fruitfulnefs 5 vea, of thofe that ~ proceed from an univerfal Intemperament, by re ducing the Body with a good and convenient Regimen to x good Order,and this according to its refepctive Indifpo- fitions, Wherefore if a Woman have naturally the Vagi- mentioned, fhe ought to be joined to a Man whofe Mem- ber is proportionable, if poflible: and if that will not do (which happens very feldom) fhe muft endeavour to relax and dilate it with emollient Oils and Ointments 5 if the Neck of the Womb be comprefied by any Humour, it muft be refolved and fuppurated according to its Na- tite and Situation, having always Care to prevent the Corruption of thefe Parts, which being hot and moift, are very fubjeét to it ;. becaufe the Womb ferves’as.a Sink by which all the ill Humours of the Body are purged ;- fo that you muft take great Care, that thefe kind of Tu- mours thin not toa Cancer, which.is a very mifchievous Malady, and caufeth the poor Women miferably to lan- guifh which are affli@ed with it, and which after many infupportable Pains, brings them almoit always toan in- vitablé Death. When the Yagina is not clear_in its Capacity, becaufe of any Scar after.a Rent, caufed by fome Foree or Vio- lence to the Woman, or of fome hard Labour, or after an Ulcer, which caufed the two Sides to be agglutinated, whether inwardly or outwardly, it muft be feparated the beft that may be witha * Bi/fory, or td Incifion- Knife. Cafe requires,hindring, by interpofed Li- faa nen, that it do not again agglutinate. When a Woman hath no Vulva, or outward Entry of the Womb pierced, which is very rare, it mut be open- ed by making a long Incifion. ete ’ Fabricius recites the “like Cafe in a Girl of thirteen Years of Age, like to die of it, becaufe her Terms could