Aristotle's works: / Containing the Master-piece, Directions for Midwives, and Counsel and Advice to Child-bearing Women with Various Useful Remedies

by pseud. Aristotle

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ARISTOTLE’S WORKS:
CONTAINING
THE MASTER-PIECE,
DIRECTIONS FOR MIDWIVES,
AND
COUNSEL AND ADVICE
TO
CHILD-BEARING WOMEN.
WITH
VARIOUS USEFUL REMEDIES.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED FOR THE BOOKSELLERS.

ADVERTISEMENT.

At the present time, when so many of the female sex, in the hour of Nature’s extremity, depend solely upon the skill and practical experience of the Midwife, we regard every attempt to assist the female accoucheur in her difficult, and sometimes dangerous operation, as a blessing conferred upon society.

This treatise enters fully into every department of Midwifery; and lays down excellent rules, and proposes valuable suggestions for the guidance of the female operator, which, if acted upon, will not only redound to the credit of the practitioner, but will be of immense benefit to those operated upon. Another valuable feature of this work is, that it contains important directions for the guidance of child-bearing women during the time of their pregnancy: how they should conduct themselves with regard to regimen, medical treatment, and other matters, each month, until the time of their delivery. In short, we venture to assert that if the counsel and advice given in the Experienced Midwife be strictly adhered to by all parties interested therein, the travail in child-birth, instead of being many times difficult and dangerous, will be safe, speedy, and comparatively easy.

CONTENTS.

THE MASTER-PIECE.
			PAGE
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 Conception			ib.
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.