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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38470	The English midwife enlarged containing directions to midwives; wherein is laid down whatever is most requisite for the safe practising her art. Also instructions for women in their conceiving, bearing and nursing of children. With two new treatises, one of the cure of diseases and symptoms happening to women before and after child-birth. And another of the diseases, &c. of little children, and the conditions necessary to be considered in the choice of their nurses and milk. The whole fitted for the meanest capacities. Illustrated with near 40 copper-cuts.		1682 (1682)	Wing E3104A; ESTC R218753	111,486	336

which the motions of all the senses by reason of the vital spirit are justly made After the nerves from the brain also is formed the pith of the back-bone not of an unlike nature from the brain so that it scarce can be called marrow because it hath no likeness to marrow either by sight or in substance for the marrow is a kind of superfluous aliment arising from the blood of the members appointed to moisten and make the bones of the body grow but the brain and pith of the back have their original from the seed not deputed for the nourishment and growth of the other members but that by themselves they might make private parts of the body for the use and motion of the Senses that from thence all the other nerves may take their rise For from the pith of the back many nerves arise from which the body hath sense and motion as may appear by the difference betwixt the vital and animal faculties as hath been before hinted Moreover here it is to be observed that from the seed it self gristles bones coats of the veins of the Liver and of the arteries of the heart the brain with the Nerves and again the tunicles and as well other pannicles or membranes as those that wrap up the infant are generated but from the proper blood of the infant is the flesh it self ingendred and all those parts that are of a fleshy substance as the Heart the Liver and Lungs And then at length all these grow together by the menstruous blood attracted by the small veins of the Navil which are observed to be directed with their orifices into the Womb. All which are distinctly made by the eighteenth day of the first month from the very conception at which time it may be called seed but afterwards it becometh to be and is called a child which the Ancients have comprehended in these two verses Six daies in milk thrice three the seed's in blood Twice six makes flesh thrice six makes members good The lesser figure denotes the Nerves derived frō the Back and dispersed through the whole The explanation of the larger figure see in the following page FF Sheweth a young one of 18 daies though some hold it but 14 dayes in which all the members may be discerned apart GG The four Umbilical Vessels meeting in one HH How the Umbilical Vessels become thick by degrees that that doubt amongst some may be resolved whether they spring from the Womb or no. III Sheweth how the Umbilical veins and arteries are spread throughout the Chorion by infinite branches KKK Sheweth the membrane called Amnios in which sweat and urine are gathered together in which the Infant swimmeth and sits as safe as in a Bath SECT II. Of the signs of Conception and whether the Child thrive in the Womb. DR Good Mrs. Eutrapelia vouchsafe me your observations about Conceptions and let me understand what are the signs of Conception in general and what signs distinguish the Sexes Mid. Although Sir 't is hard to know whether a woman hath conceived yea or no yet it may be conjectured by many experienced Arguments as for instance First it is thought a credible sign of Conception if a woman either the tenth day after coition or sooner perceive not by reason of any humors any of her terms be they whites or reds And though the stopping of those be accounted for a sign yet that fails often because it may be as well before conception as after But waving this let us find out other marks and prognosticks of a true conception gathered from the state and condition of the woman her self being seriously examined from head to foot Secondly pains and giddiness in the head and a mist over the sight if they meet together these portend conception Thirdly the apples of the Eyes are lessened the Eyes swell and become swarthy the veins of the Eyes grow red and are full with blood the Eyes sink the Eye-lids are remiss divers colors are seen in the Eyes and are observed in a looking-glass the veins betwixt the Eyes and the Nose are swoln with blood and are seen clearer the veins under the Tongue are somewhat greenish Fourthly the chest is warm and the back cold Fifthly the Veins and Arteries are swoln and the pulse easier the veins in the breast are first black then either yellow or blew Sixthly The breasts grow big and hard with pain the nipple grows red if she drinketh that which is cold she feels cold in her breast Seventhly there is a great loathing of meat and drink and destruction of the natural appetite with longings after various meats with an absurd appetite a continual vomiting and weakness of stomach sower belching loathing of wine an inordinate pulsation of the heart sudden joy and after that as sudden grief pains about the navil heaviness about the loins swelling towards the bottom of the belly inward pricking in the body chilness of the outward parts after coition retention of the seed seven daies after copulation about the beginning of conception a shooting pain about the back and belly The courses are stop'd for those veins from which they flow carry the blood through certain holes that are at the end of them for the nourishment of the infant by the navil and part of it is conveyed upwards into the breasts and there is prepared for milk Eightly the thighs swell with pain but the body is weaker and the face pale Ninthly the belly is costive by reason of the compressure of the intestines The urine is white with a cold swimming at the top wherein are to be seen many atomes like those observable in the beams of the sun but when in the first Month many of these sink to to the bottom the vessel in which it is being shaken it seems to be drawn out like to wooll In the later months the urine is redrish or yellow it becomes blackish with a red cloud at the top I will here-with relate to you two experiments by which it may be known whether or no a woman hath conceived And the first is this Stop up a womans urine three daies in an urinal at the end of which strain it or rather drop it through fine linnen and if she hath conceived you shall see little creatures like to lice if these be red 't is a token of a male but if white they say portend a female If a womans urine be put in a brass Bason and stand there one night if you put into it a bright needle if she hath conceived that needle will be bespeckled with red spots but if otherwise it will be rusty all over The Signs whereby most pretend to know whether Male or Female be conceived being altogether Falacious and Ridiculous I have wholly omitted Dr. Since you have given such signs of Conception let me know by what signs you apprehend the Infant to be well and thrive in the Womb or not Mid. I shall Sir And first if it be

a Woman newly layd p. 247 Sect. 4. Of the bruises and rents of the outward parts of the Womb caused by Labors p. 252 Sect. 5. Of the After-pains p. 254 Sect. 6. Of the Lochia whence they come if good or bad their stopping and what ensues p. 255 Sect. 7. Of the Inflammation c. of the Womb. p. 258 Sect. 8. Of the Inflammation and Apostemation of the Breasts p. 259 Sect. 9. Of the curdling of the Milk in the Breasts p. 262 Sect. 10. Of Choping c. and loss of the Nipples p. 265 PART IV. Of the Diseases and Symptoms happening to little Children and of the choice of a Nurse SEct. 1. What manner of Woman a Nurse ought to be and whether the Mother be the best Nurse p. 269 Sect. 2. Of the Diseases and Symptoms which happen to Children and first of their Diseases in general p. 291 Sect. 3. Of Feavers Meazels and Small-Pox in little Children p. 293 Sect. 4. Of the milky scab Achores Scald-Head and Lice p. 295 Sect. 5. Of the watry swelling of the Head p. 298 Sect. 6. Of Fright in the Sleeps and Watchings p. 299 Sect. 7. Of the Falling-sickness and Convulsion p. 301 Sect. 8. Of pain in the Ears Moisture Vlcers and Worms p. 302 Sect. 9. Of the Thrush bladders of the Gums and Inflammation of the Tonsils p. 303 Sect. 10. Of the breeding of Teeth p. 304 Sect. 11. Of a Catarrh Cough and difficult breathing p. 305 Sect. 12. Of the Hiccup and Vomiting p. 307 Sect. 13. Of the pains and puffing of the Belly p. 309 Sect. 14. Of the Flux of the Belly p. 311 Sect. 15. Of Costiveness p. 312 Sect. 16. Of Worms p. 313 Sect. 17. Of the Rupture p. 314 Sect. 18. Of Bunching out and inflammation of the Navil p. 315 Sect. 19. Of the falling out of the Fundament p. 316 Sect. 20. Of difficulty and stopping of Vrine p. 317 Sect. 21. Of not holding Vrine p. 318 Sect. 22. Of Leanness and Bewitching p. 319 SECT I. Of the True generation of it Parts and Increase of the Infant in the Womb according to the daies and times till the time of the Birth WHen the Womb whose property it is naturally to receive seed for generation as a Loadstone attracts iron or Jeat straws or feathers hath received the seed and by its virtue hath shut it up for generation Presently from the first day until the sixth or seventh there grow and arise very many and very small fibres or hairs beginning with a hot motion by which vital heat the Liver with its chiefest organs are generated as this following Figure may the more illustrate The small Fibres In the one of which branches there is a collection of blood of which first the liver is generated From whence it easily appears the liver is a congealed and concrete blood and also it may be manifest how many and various veins it hath prepared and fitted for the attractive and expulsive virtue But in the other branch are generated those webs o● veins with the dilatation of other veins as o● the stomach spleen and intestines in the lower part of the belly And from hence immediately all veins are collected together as so many branches into one trunk in the upper web of the liver towards the hollow vein●… and this trunk by and by sends down branche● to make the midriff and directs not a few branches to the lower parts even to the very thighs and then the heart with its arteries extended into seed from the navil i● generated by a vital virtue and is directe● towards the spine of the back as is demonstrated in this figure 3. But those do attract the hottest and more subtile blood of which the heart is generated incased in a membrane naturally fleshy and thick necessary upon the account of so ●ot a member But the hollow vein extend●ng it self and penetrating the inward con●avity of the right side in the heart c. de●ives thence blood for the nourishment of the ●eart From the same branch also of this his vein and in the same part another vein ariseth called by some the immoveable or quiet vein because according to the account of the pulsation of other veins it beats not at all but lies quiet ordained for this end that it should let go the purest blood to the Lungs being vested with a double tunicle like an Arterie from whence it is called the Arterial vein But in the left concavity of the heart there are two Arteries that is to say the Venal Arterie and the Great Arterie which carries a great pulse with it and diffuseth the vital Spirits by the blood of the heart into all the Arteries of the Body For as the hollow vein is the original of all veins by which the Body doth attract its whole nourishment of blood so from the Aorta or great Arterie all pulsatile veins are derived diffusing the vital Spirits through the whole Body For the heart is the fountain and original of vital heat without which no creature or member can thrive Under the abovesaid Arterie in the left concavity of the heart another vein ariseth called the Venal Arterie And although that be really a pulsatile vein and doth direct the vital Spirits yet according to the manner of all pulsatile veins that have blood it hath but one coat and therefore made for that end that it should derive the cold air from the Lungs to refresh the heart as also to attemper its over-much heat And veins issuing out from both the cavities of the heart are inserted into the Lungs of which they are formed for the vein that proceeds from the right cavity of the heart produceth the most subtile blood which by small fibres dispersed here and there is changed into the fleshy substance of the lungs But from the great vein of the Liver viz. the Vena Cava or hollow vein the whole brest is generated and so successively the Arms and Thighs Within the time aforesaid also is generated the highest and chiefest part of this noble structure the Brain in the third Region of this mass for the whole mass of seed is filled with the animal Spirits that contracts a great part of the genital moysture and concludes it in a certain cavity wherein the brain may be formed but as to the out-fide it is inveloped with a certain covering which being dried with heat is brought into a boney substance and becomes a scull as appears by this precedent figure But the brain is so formed that it may conceive retain and change the natures of all the vital Spirits from whence also proceed the beginnings of all Reason and of the Senses For as veins have their original from the Liver and as arteries have their rise from the heart so also nerves being of a softer and milder natural existence arise from the brain and are not hollow as the veins are but solid for they are the first and chiefest instruments of all the senses by