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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31042	A companion for midwives, child-bearing women, and nurses directing them how to perform their respective offices : together with an essay, endeavouring to shew the influence of moral abuses upon the health of children / by Robert Barret ...	Barret, Robert, Brother of Surgeons Hall.	1699 (1699)	Wing B913; ESTC R14416	49,115	144

and went into the House and found the Babe with Mary his Mother and fell down and worshipp'd him and presented to him Gifts Gold Frankincense and Myrrh And being warn'd of God in a Dream that they should not return to Herod they returned into their own Country another way After their departure behold the Angel of the Lord appeareth to Ioseph in a Dream saying Arise and take the Babe and his Mother and flee into Egypt and be there till I bring thee word for Herod will seek the Young Child to destroy him So he arose and took the Babe and his Mother by Night and departed into Egypt and was there until the Death of Herod that it might be fulfill'd what was spoken of the Lord by the Prophet saying out of Egypt have I call'd my Son Then Herod seeing that he was mock'd of the Wisemen was exceeding worth and sent forth and slew all the Male Children that were in Bethlehem and all the Coasts thereof from two Years Old and Under according to the time which he had diligently inquir'd of the Wisemen So in Rama was a Voice heard Rachel weeping for her Children and would not be Comforted because they were not c. Were our Midwifes more acquainted with the Scriptures and the Duties enjoyn'd them relating to their Office they would take more care to inform their Judgments and improve their Knowledge and not venture so rashly upon a business of such Consequence without being better provided with Skill and Experience This would teach 'em to wait with Patience for a timely Birth not to anticipate or hasten the labour for their own Ends and to neglect nothing in its season that may contribute to the safety of Mother and Child Therefore I have not only given plain and familiar directions how she is to behave her self in the whole course of her attendance but have endeavour'd to press her to her Duty with such Moral Considerations as no true Christians ought to slight I doubt not but such as are over confident of their scanty Knowledge or Guilty of the Crimes I lay to their charge will frowardly decry my undertaking and endeavour to stifle so plain a discovery of the Crimes they have no mind to part with But I shall gain my design if I can but prove serviceable to those that are desirous to know and propose nothing to themselves but the safety and wellfare of Mother and Child ROBERT BARRET Remov'd from my House in Charterhouse-street London to Greenwich in Kent at the Surgeons Arms over-against the Church Where you may have the Elixir Rha. Indicum or Indian Counter-poyson It is a most admirable Cordial expelling sharp Gripings Clammy and Tartarous humours from the Stomach and Bowels It strengthens the Liver and Cures all sorts of Fluxes Melancholy Green Sickness and Rickets in Children there is not a better specifick given to Women which are apt to miscarry and may be taken all the time she is with Child from one spoonful to three at a time upon any illness Prepared by him from one Shilling to Five each Bottle of a pleasant taste He prepares a Restorative Pill for Consumptions Asthma's it eases all manner of pain 't is an excellent Pectoral he cures most Distempers of the Womb and freely gives advice The Contents Section I. COntaining the Character of a Midwife with Directions how to perform her Office towards Mother and Child as well in the time of Labour as before and after Delivery with a full and brief Description of the various sorts of Unnatural Labours and the more Dangerous Symptoms of Women in Child bed with the most approved Methods of Relief Chap. I. Containing the Character of a Midwife with some short Remarks on her Humor manners and conduct in performing her duty Chap. II What preparatory Offices are incumbent on a Midwife when the Woman is near the time of her Delivery Chap. III. Explaining a Midwife's Duty in time of Travel Chap. IV. Containing directions to a Midwife what to do when the Child is just come into the World Chap. V. How to Manage the Woman when delivered Chap. VI. How to know whether the Child in the Womb be dead or alive if dead how to perform her Office with directions in case of a Mola or false Conception Chap. VII Of the different sorts of Vnatural Labours with the best Methods of assistance on such extraordinary occasions Chap. VIII Of the Cesarean Section or cutting the Child out of the Mothers Womb. Chap. IX Of the various Symptoms happening to Women in Child bed and the most successfull Methods of cure Section II. OF the Instruments of Generation in Women the Membranes that enfold the Child in the Womb The manner of its Generation Encrease and Nourishment in the Womb The Causes of Barrenness and the means to prevent it The Conduct of a Woman going with Child the signs of Conception and the Prevention of Miscarriage Chap. I. Of the Parts serving for Generation in Women Chap. II. Of the Membranes enfolding the Child in the Womb. Chap. III. Of the manner of generating the Infant in the Womb and its gradual Nourishment and Encrease from the first Minute of Conception to the hour of Birth Chap. IIII. Of the Causes of Barrenness and Means to prevent it Chap. V. Directions how a Woman shall know when she has conceiv'd and what Conduct she ought to observe during the time of her being with Child so as to prevent Miscarriage Sect. III. EXplaining the Duty of a Nurse with reference to the Child from the ●ime of its Birth to its removal ●rom he● conduct Together with an Essay endeavouring to shew what Influence Moral abuses may have upon its health SECTION I. Containing the Character of a Midwife with Directions how to perform her Office towards Mother and Child as well in the time of Labour as before and after Delivery with a full and brief description of the various sorts of unnatural Labours and the more dangerous Symptoms of Women in Childbed with the most approv'd methods of Relief CHAP. I. Containing the Character of a Midwife with some short Remarks on her Humour Manners and Conduct in performing her Duty IN these Days there are many Women that take upon 'em the knowledge and practice of Midwifry barely upon the priviledge of their Age. As if a Woman were more expert in that Art for her Dottage or Old-Age or as if the mystery of it were obvious to any that has but liv'd some scores of Years But by their favour I must be allow'd to acquaint 'em that the knowledge and dexterity of a good Midwife is not to be come at so cheap and easily as they imagine the sacred Shrines of Knowledge are not so accessible as to be Patent to every lazy Adventurer no the Understanding must be peculiarly instructed in that Affair and then succeeding Experience and Practice must qualifie the Hand for performing its Office I 've endeavour'd in this small Treatise to assist 'em in