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truth_n	art_n	impart_v	murder_a	27	3	16.1569	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11176	The expert midwife, or An excellent and most necessary treatise of the generation and birth of man Wherein is contained many very notable and necessary particulars requisite to be knovvne and practised: with diuers apt and usefull figures appropriated to this worke. Also the causes, signes, and various cures, of the most principall maladies and infirmities incident to women. Six bookes compiled in Latine by the industry of Iames Rueff, a learned and expert chirurgion: and now translated into English for the generall good and benefit of this nation.; De conceptu et generatione hominis. English	Rüff, Jakob, 1500-1558.	1637 (1637)	STC 21442; ESTC S101598	115,647	315

make us acknowledge the profound wisedome of God wee are put in mind to acknowledge and learne from such a cunning and artificiall frame of our body the most profound and deep wisdome of God and his admirable goodnesse also the end of our state and condition that is to say his glory and our salvation and alwaies to utter and expresse our greatest gratuity and thankefulnesse to so great and wonderfull a Work-master and Creator CHAP. IIII. Of the Condition of the Infant in the wombe also of the care and duty belonging to women conceived with childe THe seede conceived even unto the forty and fift day is changed into the due and perfect forme and shape of the Infant and then by the judgement of some learned men is receiveth life and therefore afterward ought not to be called a Feature but an Infant although as yet When the conception is called an Infant by reason of his tender and feeble condition and state he wanteth motion For then hee is most like to a tender flower and blossome of trees which is easily cast downe and dejected with any blast of wind and raine Great heed to be taken by women with child of affrightments immoderate joy sorrow c. and for that cause there is neede of very great caution and heed to be taken that no perill and danger may happen to them which are with childe by any manner of meanes either by sudden feare affrightments by fire lightening thunder with monstrous and hideous aspects and sights of men and beasts by immoderate joy sorrow and lamentation or by untemperate exercise and motion of running leaping riding or by surfeit or repletion by meate and drinke or that they being taken with any disease doe not use sharpe and violent medicines using the counsell of unskilfull Physicians Againe The wicked Art of old witches and harlots not to be used that they use not the wicked Arts and policies of old Witches and Harlots for removing and punishing of whom the care and charge ought most specially to belong unto the Magistrates to wit being the fathers of the people For how many Virgins how many Widdowe 's also ensnared and intangled with these Arts and divellish practices Cruell murders cōmitted by the divellish arts of witches have committed cruell and more than brutish murders of their tender Babes and Infants But of many I will declare a few which those pestilent and damnable wretches have used most freely thorow the whole world the rest I will leave to the consideration of others at least the mischievous practices of these being somewhat discovered The arts and acts of Harlots and Witches When first being deflowred and robbed of their best Iewell they have perceived some alteration to be caused in them as variable appetites a loathing of their accustomed meate and drinke continuall vomiting dispositions to parbrake in the morning passions and paines of the heart swoonings paines of the teeth by and by instructed with evill Arts they make the first experiments by lacing in themselves strait and hard that they may extinguish and destroy the Feature conceived in the wombe They lace themselves very strait But when they perceive no helpe thereby they assay and attempt greater matters going by the instinct of the Divell to some old Witch very skilfull in curing these diseases They goe to some old Witch and famous by long experience asking and questioning with them about the cure and remedie of the stopping of their Termes desiring a medicine and counsell to procure them to issue For they say that they being stopped doe breed and bring those paines about the Midriffe and thighes and also to procure many vomits The old witch adviseth them of meanes The old Witch not ignorant of the matter willeth them to enquire for medicines of Apothecaries also to gather some herbes in a certaine place willing and advising them that they use them in Wine that they take the vapour of some that they put some of them in their shooes that with some boiled in water they wash their feete and legges morning and evening also that they drinke of the docoction of some of them morning and evening But when this cure and remedy doth not profit she willeth them to open the veines in the feet The opening of the veines in the feet destroyeth that which is conceived in the wombe which being done that perisheth by and by which was conceived in the womb Sometime Fathers Masters and Mistresses of the house observing and marking this thing and also some other besides and conjecturing as the matter is indeed Their precences streight-way they pretend and make a shew that they are troubled with wringings and gripings in the belly with paines of the brest and head and do shadow and dissemble the truth of the matter But the issue of their termes returning when they know they are free and delivered from the Feature These murthering arts imparted to others they impart and communicate likewise those murthering arts and cruell practices to others that thereby many murthers of sillie Infants are committed Besides also many Midwives and also Chirurgions and unskilfull Physicians sometimes over-credulous doe counsell advise such things to great evill and mischiefe But it is the part and office of a godly and religious Magistrate both to observe prevent all these things Now let us returne to the matter The motion of the Infant in the wombe After the third and fourth moneth from the conception the Infant doth begin to move and stirre himselfe in the wombe and somewhat to display and stretch out himselfe and also to enlarge and amplifie his narrow little Cottage whereby it commeth to passe that the wombe beginneth to swell and to be amplified and extended into length How the Infant about the time of the birth is disposed breadth and profundity But about or towards the time of the birth the Infant inclineth and boweth downward with the face toward the knees draweth both his legges to him casteth and throweth both his hands above his knees his nostrils being placed in the midst being rolled and wrapped together on a heap in manner of a Globe with his former part looking on the backe of his mother but turning his hinder part to the belly of his mother And although some Anatomists doe thinke otherwise notwithstanding wee finde it so by often experience and set it forth to be viewed in this annexed Figure CHAP. V. How the Infant is conditioned and in what state he is the fift sixt seventh and eight Moneth and also the difference of the Sex and formes AFter the third and fourth Moneth the Infant useth more plentifull and copious nourishment and doth prosper 〈◊〉 and increase more and more with it untill 〈◊〉 time of birth and deliverance shall come 〈◊〉 we must know The Infant home the sixt moneth cannot live when he shall be born 〈…〉 not able to retaine life 〈…〉 although