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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    z ipona> os ee) ct eT ~z === 62 DE the Diteales Lib. 1, ried in too. great abundance to the Breafts, it fignifies | that the Woman is in danger of being frantick, becaufe of the tranfport which may _be made thence to the | Brain; which Accident is avoided by moderate bleeding | pin in the Arm, as allo by a regular eooling Diet, mode- i => = ¢ — tre = = es rately nourilhing, for to diminifh the Quantity, and i temper the Heat of the Humours of the whole Habit. Ss Wat ther CH A’P.- XIV. a iays Blok Of Incontinence and Difficulty of Urine. Bid ish HE Situation of the Bladder, placed juft upon the | be - Womb, is fafficient to inftruct us wherefore preg- gt nant Women are fometimes troubled with difficulty of 9% Urine, and the reafon why they cannot often hinder, 7: nor {carce retain their Water : which is caufed two qi! ways; 1. Becaufe the Womb with Child by its bignels jj tll and weight comprefleth the Bladder, fo that it is hin- 9]! dred from having its ordinary Extenfton; and fo incapa- Wa ble of containing a reafonable Quantity of Urine, which 9 ho isthe Caufe that the bigger the Woman grows, and the fit nearer her time fhe approaches, the oftner fhe is com- f} I pelled to make’ Water, which for that ‘reafon they can- lita not keep. | 2. If the weighty Burden of the Womb [ihitc doth very much comprels the bottom of the Blad-jjaih der, it forceth the Woman to make Water every mo- |B}iin, ment: but contrarily, if the Neck of it be prefled, Pili: it is filled fo extreamly with Urine, which ftays there §)& with great Pain, being not able to expel it, forafmuch JN as the Sphincter, becaufe of this Compreflion, cannot be F) hy opened to let it out. Sometimes alfo the Urine by its A-) My crimony excites the Bladder very often by pricking it, to }) tag “difcharge it felf; and fometimes, by its Heat it makes §| tt}, an Inflammation in the Neck’ of the Bladder, whieh cau-) tin, {eth its Supprefiion. It: maybe likewife that this Acct=B| by, dent is caufed by a Stone contained in the Bladder ; stig Bey tee |