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The ladies physical directory : or, a treatise of all the weaknesses, indispositions and diseases peculiar to the female sex from eleven years of age, to fifty or upwards. by which Woman and Maids of the meanest Capacity may perfectly understand the Symptoms, Nature, and true Cause of their own Illnesses, and readily know how to manage themselves under all their Infirmities. With Proper Remedies in English prescribed, for the Greensickness, Obstructions, Immoderate Fluxes, Hysterick Affections, the Piles and every other Disorder or Distemper the Fair Sex are particularly liable to, whereby they may certainly and quickly Cure themselves without Trouble, the Advice or Knowledge of any other Person. To which is Annex'd, A Practical Discourse on Barrenness, Directing How it may be certainly Cured, and those Women be render'd Fruitful, who have been deem'd incurably Barren for many Years; with a clear and very particular Account of Generation and Conception. Also Of Impotency and Infertility in Men; With Directions for their perfect Cure. Likewise Of Miscarriage in Women, and how it may be assuredly prevented even in those who have miscarried Nine or Ten times before. The whole Illustrated, With various Cases of Persons cured, proper Hints, useful Cautions, Observations and Instructions, the like for General Benefit to the Female Sex never before Published. By a physician.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Physician.
Series:
Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Women--Diseases--Early works to 1800.
Women.
Women--Diseases.
Physical Description:
8 unnumbered pages,72 pages ; 8⁰
Edition:
The third edition, with large additions.
Other Title:
Rational account of the natural weaknesses of women
Place of Publication:
London : printed and sold by the author's appointment, at the gentlewoman's at the Two Blue Posts in Haydon-Yard in the Minories, London, [1727]
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file
Notes:
First published as 'A rational account of the natural weaknesses of women'.
Price from imprint: Price Bound 2 s.
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns
Reproduction of original from British Library.
Cited in:
English Short Title Catalog, T18465.
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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