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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88969	The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also, the best directions how to help them in natural and unnatural labours. : With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. : Illustrated with divers fair figures, newly and very correctly engraven in copper. : A work much more perfect than any yet extant in English: being very necessary for all chirurgeons and midwives that practise this art. / Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. ; Translated, and enlarged with some marginal-notes, by Hugh Chamberlen ...	Mauriceau, François, 1637-1709.; Chamberlen, Hugh.	1672 (1672)	Wing M1371B; ESTC R202898	249,555	467

diligent care reduced to their natural state now amongst other things endeavour to prevent the Childs squinting growing awry crooked or lame and to redress any of these whatsoever as much as possible To prevent its Squinting chuse a Nurse whose sight is stable and right lest by her ill example he gets an ill habit and as we have said elsewhere let the Cradle be ever so placed that being laid in it he may alwaies see the light directly before him either of day candle or fire lest by being on one side he come to turn continually his Eyes that way whereby he will be in great danger of growing asquint Paulus Aeginetus and Pareus also would have a squint-eyed Infant 's sight redressed by putting a Mask upon his Face with only two small holes right against the Eyes to see through which will cause him perceiving no light but through those holes to hold his Eyes ever that way by means whereof they will be established in a right scituation and by degrees quit the ill habit they had gotten of looking aside This counsel seems good in appearance but I believe it will be very inconvenient for a Child to follow it besides that the least removing of the Mask on which side soever the little holes not corresponding perfectly in a direct line to the middle of the Eyes the sight will be thereby more perverted To prevent a Childs growing crooked awry or lame the Nurse must swaddle its Body in a strait scituation equally extending the Arms and Legs and swathing the Child sometimes one way sometimes another lest swadling it alwaies one way the parts should take an ill habit When he is laid in the Cradle he must be streight on his back and not bending and above all when the Nurse holds him in her Arms let her carry him sometimes upon one and sometimes upon the other for holding the Childs Legs alwaies on the same fashion it would be a great hazard if they did not at length grow crooked and it is often the only reason that so many Children have crooked Legs especially about the Knees and this few Nurses take notice of which notwithstanding is of great consequence When these parts have an evil conformation in their Figure they must be helpt with Swathes and Boulsters conveniently placed to keep the parts in a good posture whiles the Child is in swadling Clothes afterwards being grown a little bigger one may use little leather Boots somewhat stiff with which the Legs must be straitned and if the Foot be only awry Shoes underlaid of one side higher than the other will serve the turn When the Breast or Back-bone are in fault it must be helped if possible or at least hindered from growing worse and the fault may be hid by ordering the Childs clothes with Past-board Whale-bone and Tinne placed where the Chirurgeon shall think fit to reduce the mishapen part to a better Figure Having hitherto mentioned the most ordinary Diseases befalling little Infants 't is not necessary here to make a larger description of them for as for those that we have not treated of since they may indifferently happen to all sorts of ages they have nothing peculiar in respect of Children as to the knowledg or cure of them but only for the tenderness and delicacy of their Body There now remains only for to finish our undertaking that we give necessary directions in the choice of a good Nurse CHAP. XXXIV Of the requisites and necessary conditions in the choice of a good Nurse THe first and principal of all the qualities in a good Nurse is that she be the own Mother of the Child as well because of the mutual agreement of their tempers as that having much more love for it she will be much more careful than an hired Nurse who ordinarily loves her nurse-Nurse-child but with a feined and seeming love having no other end or foundation but the hope of her recompence she expects for her pains by a mercenary hire Wherefore the true Mother though not the best Nurse should ever be preferred before a Stranger But because there are several that either will not or cannot suckle their own Children whether it be to preserve their beauty as all persons of quality and most of the Citizens do or that their Husbands will not suffer them nor be troubled with such a noise or that being ill or indisposed they cannot there is then an obligation to provide another Nurse which should be chosen as convenient for the Child as may be Now even as we see Trees though of the same kind growing in the same place being afterwards transplanted into another soil produce fruits of a different taste by reason of the nourishment they draw thence Even so the health of Children and sometimes their manners depends on the nourishment they receive at the beginning for as to the health of the Body 't is well known it answers the Humours that all the parts are nourished and maintained with which Humours ever retain the nature of the food whereof they are engendred As for the Manners they ordinarily follow the Temperament which also proceeds from the quality of the Humours and the Humours from the Food By this consequence as the Nurse is so will the Child be by means of the nourishment which it draweth from her and in sucking her it will draw in both the vices of her Body and Mind This appears very easily in Animals that suck a strange Dam for they alwaies partake something of the creature they suck being accordingly either of a mild or fiercer nature or of a stronger or weaker Body which may be noted in the example of young Lions tamed by sucking a domestick Animal as a Cow Asse or Goat and on the contrary a Dog will become more furious or fierce if it sucks a Wolf The necessary conditions in a good Nurse are usually taken from her Age the time and manner of her Labour the good constitution of all the parts of her Body and particularly of her Breasts from the nature of her Milk and in fine from her good Manners As to her Age the most convenient is from twenty five to thirty five years of age because that during this space the Woman is most healthy strong and vigorous she is not fit before five and twenty because her Body not having yet acquired all its dimensions cannot be so robust nor after thirty five because not having Blood enough in so great abundance she cannot have Milk enough for the nourishment of the Child However some Women are indifferent good Nurses from twenty to fourty but very rarely before or after As to the time and manner of her Labour it must be at least a Month or six Weeks after it that so her Milk may be throughly purified because at that time her Body is usually cleansed of the Lochia which follows Labour and the Humours are no longer disturbed with it nor must it be above five or six Months that

reflects the light which it receives so likewise I hope that this small Work may by the reflection of the Sun of your Doctrine of which I have received many rayes enlighten the young Chirurgeons and Midwives in the difficulties which they often meet with at Labours Accept then Gentlemen this small Production of one of your Children who conjures you by the love of Fathers that never disown their Children how deformed soever to defend it against Envy and Detraction which will never dare to attaque it when you have vouchsafed it your Protection which is the Favour desired from you by Gentlemen Your very affectionate Brother and Companion Francis Mauriceau The Approbation of the four Sworn Provosts and Wardens of the Master-Chirurgeons of Paris VVEE under-written Sworn Provosts and Wardens of the Master-Chirurgeons of the City of Paris do certifie that we have seen and examined a Book composed by FRANCIS MAURICEAU sworn Master-Chirurgeon of Paris intituled The Diseases of Women with Child and in Child-bed With a true Method of assisting them in their natural Labours and the means of remedying all those contrary to Nature and the Diseases of Infants new-born Likewise an exact Description of all the Parts of a Woman destin'd to generation together with many Figures suitable to the subject Which Book We esteem very profitable for the Publick and necessary for young Chirurgeons and all Midwives to learn perfectly the practice of the Art of Deliveries in confirmation of which we have signed this present Certificate Paris the 15th of March 1668. Le Filastre Vivien L'Escot L'Eaulte An Extract of the Kings Priviledge BY the Grace and Priviledge of the King given at St. Germans the 10th day of June 1668. signed Le Gross it is granted to Francis Mauriceau sworn Master-Chirurgeon of Paris to print sell and distribute by such Printers and Booksellers as he shall think good a Book composed by him entituled The Diseases of Women with Child and in Childbed c. With express Injunction and Prohibition to all persons of what quality or condition soever not to print the said Book nor to sell nor vend any other Impression than this which the said Mauriceau hath caused to be made or such as he hath authorized nor likewise to copy or counterfeit any of the Figures of the said Book for the space of Ten years commencing from the time that the Impression shall be compleated Upon pain of Confiscation of the Counterfeit Copies and of 300 l. and reimbursing all charges and damages whatsoever as it is more amply recited in the said Priviledge of which this present Extract shall serve for sufficient notice The Author to the Reader Friendly Reader SInce in the Age we live in we see that most people are govern'd rather by Opinion than Judgment I desire that if you mean to profit by reading my Book you will reade and examine it without any critical Envy and free from all sort of preoccupation which may obscure your Judgment and hinder you from acknowledging the Truth of those Things I pretend to teach Therefore be not of their humour who condemn a Conception when they understand it not and believe it false because 't is new neither imitate such who seeking alone to carp at words neglect the sense of the Discourse For even as it happens very often that Purging though proper for a Disease doth no good to a Patient when his Body is not well prepared and disposed for its Operation so the Doctrine of Books which is one of the most wholsom effectual Remedies we have to chase away ignorance is wholly useless to mens wits if they are not disposed to receive it I believe I may hope you will easily grant me this request because it is for your advantage In the mean time though I design to instruct you here in whatsoever concerns Women with Child or in Labour yet I would not divert you from reading of many learned Authors who have treated of it but only advise you that the most part of them having never practised the Art they undertake to teach resemble in my opinion those Geographers who give us the description of many Countries which they never saw and as they imagine a perfect accompt of them which makes it very difficult not to say impossible they should ever obtain their end For it is certain as Plutarch hath very well noted that the speculative part of Arts is improfitable and unfruitful when destitute of the practice You may then as to this subject relye on the Method I show you since to conduct you in it I faithfully recite what I have with very happy success observed these many years in the practice of Deliveries Furthermore blame me not for being of a Judgement different from the common opinion of many for I declare I have only bound my self to acquaint you with the truth of which I hope you will have more Satisfaction and be better pleased than if I had always blindly followed the thoughts of others having likewise endeavoured not to extend my self in superfluous discourse to the end I might be more intelligible to yong Chirurgeons and Midwives to whom this Book if I be not mistaken will be as usefull as any to teach them the safe practice of the Art of Deliveries I have not stuft it with a great number of long Receipts which serve only to swell a Volumn and confound their Wits in the uncertainty of the choice of so many different Remedies composed of Drugs which very often are unknown to them but singly contented my self to teach them the best and principally such as we ordinarily use in our practice But if in all this you find some of my Opinions not wholly Satisfactory or that others according to your Opinion are not fully agreeing with the Truth remember that as amidst the best Corn there alwayes spring Tares or some other Weeds so in like manner you meet with few Books whose doctrine is so pure as not to find something in them to reject and if I may hope for any respect from you in recompence of my pains it will be but proportionable to what you may have for many others who never had in this occasion a greater desire than my self to render you service F. M. The Translator to the Reader Courteous Reader HAving long observed the great want of necessary directions how to govern Women with Child and in Childbed and also how new-born Babes should be well ordered I designed a small Manual to that purpose but ●…ing sometime after in France with this Treatise of Mauriceau which in my opinion far exceeds all former Authors especially Culpeper Sharp Speculum Matricis Sermon c. being less erronious and inriched with divers new Observations I changed my resolution into that of translating him whom I need not much commend because he is fortified with the approbation of the Wardens of the Chirurgeons Company of Paris His Anatomy at the beginning of the Book I have omitted there being

two Children begins to flag it is a sign she will miscarry of the Child of that side and of both if both flag in the same manner It is most certain a Woman is in more danger of her life when she miscarries than at her full time because as we have said before abortion is wholly contrary to Nature and very often accompanied with flooding and in more danger of miscarrying alwayes if she miscarries of the first and some apprehend then an impossibility of ever having Children after to which young married people are very subject because of the violent emotion and perturbation of the whole body excited by ardent and frequent copulations but notwithstanding they may preserve their fruit when their greater vigour is over and their loves a little moderated We have taught in each of the foregoing Chapters how to prevent all the accidents before recited any of which is sufficient to make her miscarry and the easier if many are complicated wherefore to avoid a troublesome and needless repetition you may have recourse to the Remedies there taught by which both Women and Children may escape the danger of death They that are subject to abortion ought above all to take their ease and keep in bed if they can observing a good diet and refraining copulation assoon as she believes her self to be with Child avoiding the use of all Diureticks and Aperitives which are very pernicious as also violent passions of the mind because they are very prejudicial She ought likewise to be loose in her dress that she may breath the freer and not strait laced and rackt as most of them are ordinarily with their Busks under their cloths to make their bodies strait and amongst other things they had need take heed of slipping and falling in their walking to which big-bellied Women are very subject because the bigness of their Bellies hinders them from seeing their way they will therefore do well to wear low-heeld shoos with large soals to prevent hurting themselves as too many daily do I admire in this case the superstition of many Midwives and some Authors who order a Woman with Child to take assoon as she hath hurt her Belly with a fall some Crimson Silk small minced in the yolk of an Egg or the grains of * Kermes Scarlet and treddles of several Eggs put into the yolk of one as if that entring the stomach were able to fortifie the Womb and the Child in it and to keep it there for which there is no appearance of reason or truth but quiet rest indeed contributes much to it which for this reason is usually directed for nine dayes although such a one hath need of 15 dayes or more for her hurt or commotion and to others five or six is sufficient during which time may be applied hot to the Belly Compresses steeped in Aromatick and Astringent Wine But because there are many Women so infatuated with this superstitious custom that they would not believe themselves out of danger if they took not that Crimson Silk or the Treddles of the Eggs which is a pure conceit one may give it to those that desire it to content them because these Remedies though useless can yet do no hurt It is now time to make an end of this first Book in which I have only mentioned the most ordinary distempers which have some particular indications in their cure during the Womans being with Child of which I have not treated very exactly because it may be supposed that one may elsewhere have a more perfect knowledge of them with all their circumstances let us now pass to the second Book to treat of Deliveries not only the natural but likewise all that are contrary to nature it being the principal motive that induced me to write and to teach as well as I can the best and most methodical deportment in it The End of the first Book BOOK II. Of Labours Natural and Unnatural with the way how to help Women in the first and the right means of remedying the rest AS it is very unprofitable to those that imbark on the Sea for a long Voyage as for example to the Indies or the like if after having by their prudence escaped all the dangers they could meet with in so long a Voyage they are shipwrackt in the Haven So likewise it is not sufficient that a great-bellied Woman should be preserved from all the Diseases mentioned in the preceding Book for nine whole months if at the end of that time she be not well delivered of it by a happy Labour This therefore shal be the whole subject of this second Book where we will treat as well of the Natural as Unnatural Labours and teach the manner of aiding and comforting Women in the first and the means to remedy all the rest CHAP. I. What Labour is and the diffenrences of it together with its different terms BY a Delivery we understand either an emission or extraction of the Infant at the full time out of the Womb. This definition may comprehend as well the Natural which is accomplished by emission when the Infant coming in a commodious and natural Figure the Womb sends it forth without extraordinary violence as the delivery contrary to Nature which we are often obliged to perform extracting it by manual operation Every time the Womb le ts pass or sends forth whatsoever it had retained and formed after conception must not be call'd a labour for observing what I have already noted above and what I will here again repeat that it may be more plain If a Woman voids by the Womb what is contained in the beginning after she had conceived it is properly called an effluxion or slip because at that time there is nothing formed or figured neither have the Seeds yet any firm consistence which is the cause why it flips away so easily with the least opening of the Womb as often happens between the first conceiving and the seventh and eight day only after which until the end of the second month the Woman somtimes le ts slip false-conceptions which turn to Moles if they continue any longer in the Womb which is then called an Expulsion And if after the third month or thereabouts the time when the Faetus is wholly formed and animated it is sent forth before the seventh in that case it is an Abortion which is alwayes the cause either that the Infant comes dead into the World or dies soon after But we properly call Labour or Delivery every issuing forth of an Infant which happens after the end of the seventh month to all the remaining part of the time afterwards because there is then a sufficient perfection as also strength enough to come into the World and live in it afterwards As to the general differences of Labour we must take notice that the one is legitimate or natural the other illegitimate or against nature To come to the knowledge of each we say that four conditions must