The Female Physician / Containing all the diseases incident to that sex, in virgins, wives, and widows; together with their causes and symptoms, their degrees of danger, and respective methods of prevention and cure: to which is added, the whole art of new improvd midwifery; comprehending the necessary qualifications of a midwife, and particular directions for laying women, in all cases of difficult and preternatural births; together with the diet and regimen of both the mother and child.

THE CONTENTS.

SECT. I.

Chap. 1.	Of God. Page	1
2.	Of Nature.	4
3.	Of Man.	6
4.	Of the Soul.	8
5.	Of the Faculties of the Soul.	13
6.	Of the Humane Body.	16
7.	Of the Formation of the Embryo.	20
8.	Of the Animation of the Foetus.	24
9.	Of the Maturation of the Infant.	29
10.	Of the Nutrition and Posture of the Infant.	30
11.	Of the Membranes and Waters.	32
12.	Of the Secundine or After-Birth.	33
13.	Of the Umbilical Vessels, or Navel-String.	34

SECT. II.

Chap. 1.	Of the Symptoms peculiar to the State of Maiden-Hood. Page	37
2.	Of Virginity.	38
3.	Of the Virgin-Disease, commonly call’d the Green-Sickness.	42
4.	Of Love.	49
5.	Of Copulation.	53
6.	Remarks upon Copulation.	55
7.	Of the Power of the Imaginative Faculty.	57
8.	Of the Similitude of Children.	63

SECT. III.

Chap. 1.	Of Conception. Page	70
2.	Of the Signs of Conception.	72
3.	Of the Diet and Regimen of the Pregnant Woman.	74
4.	Of the Symptoms of the first three Months.	77
5.	Of Vomitings, or Nauseating.	79
6.	Of Fastidy, or Loathing.	80
7.	Of the Pica or Longing.	81
8.	Of Cholicks and Gripes.	84
9.	Of a Diarrhea, or Looseness.	86
10.	Of the Tooth-Ach.	85
11.	Of the Head-Ach.	87
12.	Of the Megrim, or Vertigo.	88
13.	Of the Symptoms of the Middle Three Months.	92
14.	Of Coughs.	93
15.	Of Heart-Beatings and Swooning-Fits.	94
16.	Of Watchings.	95
393
3.	Of the Strangulation of the Womb.	398

With a conclusive Application of the whole Work.

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