The accomplisht midwife, treating of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed. As also, the best directions how to help them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for ... indispositions of new-born babes ... / Translated, and enlarged with ... marginal-notes, by Hugh Chamberlen.

  • Mauriceau, François, 1637-1709
Date:
1673
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Credit: The accomplisht midwife, treating of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed. As also, the best directions how to help them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for ... indispositions of new-born babes ... / Translated, and enlarged with ... marginal-notes, by Hugh Chamberlen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BLYe Autijo2 to the Reader: Books, which. is one of the moft whol- fom effectual Remedies we have. to cha/e away ignorance, is wholly ufelefs tomens wits, ifthey are not difpofedto receive it. believe I may hope you will eafily grant me this requeft, becaufe it is for | your advantage:' In the mean. time, | .though I defign to inftru& yow here in whatfoever concerns Women with Child, ox tn Labour, yet I would not divert you from teadine of many@learned Authors who have treated of it, but only advife you that the moft part of them, having never practifed, the Art they undertake to teach, refemble (in my opinion) thofe Geographers, who. give us the defcription of many Countries which they never | faw, and (asthey imagine) a perfe@. ac compt of them; which makes it: ver difficult - (not to fay impoffible) they _ fhould ever obtain their end: For it is certain (as Plutarch hath very well noted) that the /peculative part of Arts is im- profitable, and unfruitful, when deftitute ‘ok the practice. Youmay then, as to this fubject, relye on the Method I fhow you, fince, to condu& you in. it, I faithfully recite what Ihave with very happy fuc- cefs