From my House, in New-Bond-street, over against Benn’s-Coffee-House, near Hannover-Square. 1724.

J. M.

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CONTENTS.

SECT. I.
Chap. 1.Of God. Page[1]
2.Of Nature.[4]
3.Of Man.[6]
4.Of the Soul.[8]
5.Of the Faculties of the Soul.[13]
6.Of the Humane Body.[16]
7.Of the Formation of the Embryo.[20]
8.Of the Animation of the Fœtus.[24]
9.Of the Maturation of the Infant.[29]
10.Of the Nutrition and Posture of the Infant.[30]
11.Of the Membranes and Waters.[32]
12.Of the Secundine or After-Birth.[33]
13.Of the Umbilical Vessels, or Navel-String.[34]
SECT. II.
Chap. 1.Of the Symptoms peculiar to the State of Maiden-Hood. Page[37]
2.Of Virginity.[38]
3.Of the Virgin-Disease, commonly call’d the Green-Sickness.[42]
4.Of Love.[49]
5.Of Copulation.[53]
6.Remarks upon Copulation.[55]
7.Of the Power of the Imaginative Faculty.[57]
8.Of the Similitude of Children.[63]
SECT. III.
Chap. 1.Of Conception. Page[70]
2.Of the Signs of Conception.[72]
3.Of the Diet and Regimen of the Pregnant Woman.[74]
4.Of the Symptoms of the first three Months.[77]
5.Of Vomitings, or Nauseating.[79]
6.Of Fastidy, or Loathing.[80]
7.Of the Pica or Longing.[81]
8.Of Cholicks and Gripes.[84]
9.Of a Diarrhea, or Looseness.[86]
10.Of the Tooth-Ach.[85]
11.Of the Head-Ach.[87]
12.Of the Megrim, or Vertigo.[88]
13.Of the Symptoms of the Middle Three Months.[92]
14.Of Coughs.[93]
15.Of Heart-Beatings and Swooning-Fits.[94]
16.Of Watchings.[95]
17.Of Pains in the Hips, Loins, &c.[96]
18.Of Hæmorrhagies, or Bleedings.[97]
19.Of Fluxes of Blood.[98]
20.Of the Symptoms of the last three Months.[101]
21.Of Dysuries, Ischuries, and Stranguries.[102]
22.Of Costiveness.[103]
23.Of Tenesms.[105]
24.Of the Varices, or Vein-Tumours.[106]
25.Of the Inflations and Tumours of the Legs.[107]
26.Of Fissures, or Chops of the Belly.[108]
27.Of Water-Fluxes.[109]
28.Of Acute Diseases incident to the Child-Bearing Woman.[110]
29.Of the Debility and Weakness of the Fœtus.[115]
30.Of Abortion.[116]
31.Of a Legitimate Birth.[131]
32.Of an Illegitimate Birth.[134]
33.Of a Seven-Months Birth.[135]
34.Of an Eight-Months Birth.[140]
35.Of a Nine-Months Birth.[142]
36.Of a Ten-Months Birth.[144]
37.Of an Eleven-Months, and all posterior Births.[147]
38.Of the Reasons why one Number of Months, Weeks and Days, is more Auspicious to Birth than another.[150]
39.Of the Diet and Regimen of the Woman, before and about the Time of Birth.[159]
40.Of the Natural Causes of Birth, and Pains of Labour.[161]
41.Of the Causes of a sooner, or later Birth.[163]
SECT. IV.
Chap. 1.Of Midwifery.[167]
2.Of the Qualifications of the ordinary Midwife.[171]
3.Of the Theoretical and Practical Knowledge of the Midwife.[174]
4.Of the Qualifications of the Extraordinary Midwife.[178]
5.Of the External Parts of Generation.[183]
6.Of the Internal Parts of Generation.[186]
7.Of the Pelvis.[190]
8.Of the Bones of the Pelvis.[191]
9.Of the Womb.[196]
10.Of the Extensive Faculty of the Womb.[199]
11.Of the Substantial Density of the Womb.[200]
12.Of the various Local Motion of the Womb.[203]
13.Of the oblique Situation of the Womb.[204]
14.Of Touching or Handling the Woman.[207]
15.Of the various Uses and Advantages of the Touch.[208]
16.Of the Genuine and Spurious Labour-Pains.[213]
17.Of the True Method of Laying the Woman.[216]
18.Of the Method of Extracting the Secundine, &c.[220]
SECT. V.
Chap. 1.Of Birth.[227]
2.Of Natural Births.[230]
3.Of Natural Difficult Births.[231]
4.Of Difficult Births, proceeding from External Causes.[233]
5.Of Difficult Births, proceeding from Causes of the Mother.[235]
6.Of Difficult Births, proceeding from Causes of the Infant.[239]
7.Of Difficult Births, proceeding from Causes of the Membranes.[241]
8.Of Difficult Births, proceeding from the Causes of the Pelvis.[242]
9.Of Difficult Births, proceeding from Causes of the Bones of the Pelvis.[245]
10.Of Difficult Births, proceeding from Causes of the Bladder and Rectum.[250]
11.Of Difficult Births, proceeding from the Causes of the Vagina.[252]
12.Of Preternatural Births.[253]
13.Of Preternatural Births, by the Face’s being turn’d upwards; or bent forwards, and the Crown backwards.[257]
14.Of Preternatural Births, by the Hand, Elbow, Shoulder, Knees, or Buttocks, presenting first.[259]
15.Of Preternatural Births, by the Breast, Belly, or Back presenting first; and the Infants, lying transverse.[261]
16.Of Preternatural Births, by the Feet presenting first.[264]
17.Of Preternatural Births, by Two, or more Infants presenting themselves ill-turn’d.[266]
18.Of Preternatural Births, proceeding from Causes of the Womb.[268]
19.Of Preternatural Births, from the Womb’s inclining Forwards.[270]
20.Of Preternatural Births, from the Womb’s inclining backwards.[282]
21.Of Preternatural Births, from the Womb’s inclining to either Side.[287]
22.Of Preternatural Births, proceeding from the Median oblique Situations of the Womb.[291]
23.Of Preternatural Births, proceeding from complicated Causes, of both the Infant and the Womb.[294]
24.Of Preternatural Births, proceeding from the Navel-String’s coming first, and that either alone, or with some other Member.[300]
25.Of Preternatural Births, from the After-Birth’s coming first into the Passage.[303]
26.Of Preternatural Births, proceeding from the Death of the Infant.[305]
SECT. VI.
Chap. 1.Of the Diet and Regimen of the Puerperial or Child-Bed Woman.[309]
2.Of the After-Pains.[313]
3.Of the Suppression of the Lochia, or Child-Bed-Purgations.[314]
4.Of the immoderate Flux of the Lochia.[317]
5.Of the Acute Distempers incident to Child-Bed-Women.[319]
6.Of the various other Accidents, incident to the Child-Bed-Woman.[323]
7.Of the Constriction of the Navel-String, and the Swaddling of the Infant.[325]
8.Of the Nurse and her Regimen, together with the requisite Qualities of her Milk.[329]
9.Of the Diet and Ablactation, together with the farther Regimen of the Child.[333]
10.Of the various Symptoms and Indispositions, wherewith the Child may be Born.[341]
11.Of the Sundry Symptoms, and Diseases, peculiarly incident to the Infant after Birth.[346]
12.Of the Acute Diseases of Infants.[351]
SECT. VII.
Chap. 1.Of Preternatural Conceptions.[355]
2.Of Superfœtations.[356]
3.Of a Numerous Conception.[358]
4.Of False Conceptions.[360]
5.Of Moles.[361]
6.Of Monsters.[366]
7.Of various deformed Conceptions.[373]
8.Of Imaginary Conceptions.[378]
9.Of Sterility or Barrenness.[381]
SECT. VIII.
Chap. 1.Of the Symptoms incident to the State of Widow-hood.[391]
2.Of the Hysterick Passion.[393]
3.Of the Strangulation of the Womb.[398]
With a conclusive Application of the whole Work.

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