CONTENTS.

THE MASTER-PIECE.
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The Matrimonial State considered[9]
Chap.I.—False Steps in Matrimonial Alliances[10]
„II.—The original appointment of Marriage[14]
„III.—The happy state of Matrimony[20]
„IV.—Precautionary Hints[29]
„V.—The Vagaries of Nature in the birth of Monsters[34]
„VI.—Of the Womb in general[41]
„VII.—Of the retention of the Terms[43]
„VIII.—Of the overflowing of the Terms[49]
„IX.—Of the Weeping of the Womb[53]
„X.—Of the false Terms, or Whites[54]
„XI.—Of the Suffocation of the Mother[57]
„XII.—Falling of the Womb[62]
„XIII.—Of the Inflammation of the Womb[64]
„XIV.—Of the Schirrosity or Hardness of the Womb[66]
„XV.—Of the Dropsy of the Womb[68]
„XVI.—Of Moles and False Conceptions[70]
„XVII.—Of Conception, and how a woman may know whether she has conceived or not, and whether male or female[74]
„XVIII.—Of untimely Births[76]
„XIX.—Directions for Pregnant Women[77]
„XX.—Directions to be observed by women at the time of their falling in labour[80]
„XXI.—In cases of extremity, what ought to be done[82]
THE MIDWIFE.
CHAPTER I.
Sect. I. Of the Womb[85]
Sect. II. Of the Difference between Ancient and Modern Physicians, touching the Woman’s contributing Seed for the formation of the Child[90]
CHAPTER II.
Sect. I. What Conception is[93]
Sect. II. How a Woman ought to order herself after Conceptionib.
CHAPTER III.
Sect. I. Of the Parts proper to a Child in the Womb. How it is formed there, and the Manner of its Situation therein[104]
Of the Secundine, or After-Birth[107]
Sect. II. Of the Formation of the Child in the Womb[109]
Sect. III. Of the manner of the Child’s lying in the Womb[110]
CHAPTER IV.
A Guide for Women in Travail, shewing what is to be done when they Fall in Labour, in order to their Delivery[113]
Sect. I. The Signs of the true Time of Woman’s Labour[114]
Sect. II. How a Woman ought to be ordered when the time of her Labour is come[116]
CHAPTER V.
Sect. I. What Natural Labour is[123]
Sect. II. Of the Cutting of the Child’s Navel-String[128]
Sect. III. How to bring away the After-burden[130]
Sect. IV. Of Laborious and Difficult Labours, and how the Midwife is to proceed therein[131]
Sect. V. Of Women Labouring with a dead Child[138]
CHAPTER VI.
Of Unnatural Labour[142]
Sect. I. How to deliver a woman of a Dead Child, by Manual Operation[143]
Sect. II. How a Woman must be Delivered, when the Child’s Feet come first[146]
Sect. III. How to bring away the Head of the Child, when separated from the Body, and left behind in the Womb[149]
Sect. IV. How to deliver a Woman, when the Child’s Head is presented to the Birth[151]
Sect. V. How to deliver a Woman when the Child presents one or both Hands together with the Head[153]
Sect. VI. How a Woman ought to be delivered, when the Hands and Feet of the Infant come together[154]
Sect. VII. How a Woman should be delivered that has Twins, which present themselves in different Postures[156]
CHAPTER VII.
Sect. I. How a Woman newly delivered ought to be ordered[160]
Sect. II. How to remedy those Accidents which a Lying-in Woman is subject to[162]
CHAPTER VIII.
Directions for Nurses, in ordering Newly-born Children[168]
CHAPTER IX.
Sect. I. Of Gripes and Pains in the Bowels of young Children[171]
Sect. II. Of Weakness in newly-born Infants[173]
Sect. III. Of the Fundament being closed up in a newly-born Infant[174]
Sect. IV. Of the Thrush, or Ulcers in the Mouth of the Infant[176]
Sect. V. Of Pains in the Ears, Inflammation, Moisture, &c.[177]
Sect. VI. Of Redness, or Inflammation of the Buttocks, Groin, and the thighs of the Young Child[178]
Sect. VII. Of Vomiting in young Children[179]
Sect. VIII. Of breeding Teeth in young Children[180]
Sect. IX. Of the Flux in the Belly, or Looseness in Infants[182]
Sect. X. Of the Epilepsy and Convulsions in Children[185]
Proper and Safe Remedies for Curing all those Distempers that are Peculiar to the Female Sex[186]
Aristotle’s Book of Problems[202]
The Secrets relating to Physiognomy[275]
The Midwife’s Vade-Mecum[307]
The Venereal Disease[317]

ARISTOTLE’S WORKS.