The Female Physician / Containing all the diseases incident to that sex, in virgins, wives, and widows; together with their causes and symptoms, their degrees of danger, and respective methods of prevention and cure: to which is added, the whole art of new improv'd midwifery; comprehending the necessary qualifications of a midwife, and particular directions for laying women, in all cases of difficult and preternatural births; together with the diet and regimen of both the mother and child.

by John Maubray

“Et genus Æquoreum, pecudes, pictæq; Volucres,

“In furias ignemq; ruunt: Amor omnibus idem.——

“Quid Juvenis, &c.——

Thus ev’ry Creature, and of ev’ry Kind,

The secret Joys of sweet Coition find:

Not only Man’s imperial Race; but they

That wing the liquid Air, or swim the Sea,

Or haunt the Desart, rush into the Flame:

For Love is Lord of all; and is in all the same.

’Tis with this Rage, the Mother-Lion stung,