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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

the Infant three Inches from the binding it must be cut off afterwards the Navel is to be carefully look'd to till it is dry and falls off of its own accord It is plain that Urine is not voided by the Urachus by a Child in the Womb as the Ancients have imagined but it is certainly voided by its Yard into the Membrane Amnios whence it is that it is so full of water a great part of it in some remains in the Bladder which is the Cause that always New-born Children are for the first day continually Pissing 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 WHen the Womb that by Injoyment Naturally receives Seed for Generation as a Load-Stone attracts Iron or as Heat Straws or Feathers hath now by its Virtue lock'd it up from the first Day until the Sixth or Seventh there arise very many and small Fibres or Hairs The Vital Spirits giving down Seed towards conception and form distinguishing the chiefest Members by the Tenth Day being let in by certain Veins of the Secundine to which the Matrix is fixed the Blood is imported and of which the Navel is generated But at the very same time three small spots not unlike to curds of Milk arise where the Liver Heart and Brain have their places then presently a Vein directed by the Navel attracts the thicker Blood Confused with the Seed and makes it fit for Nourishment In the other Branches are generated those Textures or rather Webs of Veins So from the Aorta or great Arterial Pulsation Veins are derived diffusing the Vital Spirits through the whole Body the Heart is the Fountain and Original of Vital Heat without which no Creature or Member can thrive Within the time aforesaid also is generated the highest and chiefest part of this Noble structure the Brain for the whole mass of Seed being filled with the Animal Spirits that Contracts a great part of the general moisture and includes it in a certain concavity wherein the Brain may be formed but as to the out-side it is inveloped with a certain covering which being toasted and dried with heat is brought into a Bony substance and becomes a Scull As Veins have their Original from the Liver Arteries from the Heart so also Nerves from the Brain All these Parts are distinctly form'd by the Eighteenth Day of the first Month from the very conception and are then called a Child which the Ancients have comprehended in these two Verses Sex in lacte dies ter sunt in sanguine Trini Bisseni carnem ter seni membra figurant Hyppocrates gives this Account viz. If you account the Days double from the time of conception you will find them quicken and the time of quickening being tripled makes up the Day of the Birth As for Example if the Infant be formed in Forty five Days it will stir in Ninety Days which is the third of the time that it lies hid in the Womb for in the Ninth Month it will come forth and make haste to the Birth although Females are often times Born in the tenth Month. So much for the formation increase and perfection of the Infant according to the account of days and times CHAP. IV. Of the Causes of Barrenness and the means to prevent it THE Womb is undoubtedly the Noblest Member of the Body it deserves by far the highest Character and is esteem'd as such by all Mankind 'T is true some unlucky wretches have the impudence to Curse their Parents and Blaspheme against the Womb that hatch'd ' em But their Example is no subject of Imitation They 're only a gang of youthful conceited Sparks that love to see themselves appear gay in their Blooming Feathers and scorn all Subjection to Old Age. Patience is the best remedy for this distemper Let their ruffling Spirits take their course 't is in vain to offer to check 'em tho' their wickedness do oft-times cause the grave tears to drop Nothing but time will change the Scene after they have run on for some time in their Carreer they 'll begin to relent and wish to themselves that they had not taken up with the trifling flatteries of youth or behav'd so unnaturally to the Vertuous Womb that bare 'em or been so forgetful of their own Original We are all the Fruit of the Womb and the whole World is govern'd by its fertile Product And therefore 't is a duty Incumbent upon us to advance the fertility of the womb as much as possible and assist 'em in the removal of the Impediments that block it up and condemn it to an empty Barrenness Fertility was anciently so much esteem'd by our forefathers that when ever the Daughter of a Family was brought to Bed of a Child then all without doors and within with one consent cry'd Heavens and the great God have bless'd our Family by sending a Child amongst us We all Praise him as most wonderful for his mercy towards us But there is no Necessity of amassing Arguments for the encouragement of Fertility or aggravating the curse of Barrenness I could appeal to every Womans thoughts what a blessing it is to have Children tho' with inexpressible Pain and Labour and how uneasie and bitter it is to be depriv'd of 'em by the shutting up of their Womb tho' attended with all the agreeable Circumstances of Health Pleasure and Freedom from Trouble How unhappy was a Fair Lady no less than an Emperess that complain'd passionately of her Misfortune saying there could be no greater Subject of Regreat than to die without Children A Woman that is fit for bearing of Children should be of a good Temperament of a regular Life and Conversation whatever is sit in general for the welfare and healthy Constitution of the Body is conducive to fertility Hippocrates takes notice of eights things that are good for making the Body fair and full The first is to be merry and enjoy content and ease of mind The second is to sleep moderately eat Meat of good Nourishment go warm in Apparrel to use moderate Exercise and keep good Company but above all to be accustom'd to changes of Air not to keep lock'd up in a Chamber and closely confin'd which murders Health Those that have in their youth been expos'd to the schocks of wind or weather are less liable to be hurt by an occasional accident whereas we see it the misfortune of such as have been long accustom'd to Niceties and a Delicate tender way of living that they are apt to be offended by the Sun the Wind the Morning or Evening Air they 're frequently out of Tune always stuffing their Guts with slops having their Chamber Windows adorn'd like an Apothecaries Shop with Pill-Boxes and Gally-Pots And in end they flip off the Stage of a sudden without any Posterity to succeed ' em The Signs and Causes of Barrenness are attributed either to Age or