@article{497731,
      recid = {497731},
      author = {Physician.},
      title = {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 Women 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 Green-Sickness. Obstructions.  Immoderate Fluxes, Hysterick Affection 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 in Women, and Impotency,  Infertility, and Seminal Weaknesses in Men. Directing How  they may be infallibly cured, and those Women render'd  fruitful, who have been deem'd incurably Barren for many  Years; and such Men become able to propagate their Species,  who through Imbecility, Seminal Disorders, &c. have for  several Years thought impossible. With A Clear and very  particular Account of Generation and Conception; and a  Digrejon concerning the Method of Begetting Sons rather  than Daughters, or of Daughters rather than Sons. Also Of  Miscarriage in Women, and how it may be assuredly  prevented, even in those who have miscarried nine or ten  Times before; with Directions to Ladies how to conduct  themselves during their Pregnancy and in Child-Bed, and how  to cause a Safe and Easy Delivery. Likewise Ample  Instructions to Midwives and Nurses, how to treat their  Child-Bed Women with Safety and Success, and several  Remedies proper to be administer'd, communicated without  Reserve; as also Directions for the better Management of  new-born Infants, so as more certainly to preserve their  Lives; with a Dissertation concerning Suckling of Children,  and Bringing them up by Hand. The Whole Illustrated With  various Cases of Persons cured, proper Hints, useful  Cautions, Observations, and Instructions, the like for  General Benefit to both Sexes never before Published; and  highly necessary for every Family in the Nation. By a  physician. [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {printed: and sold, by the author's appointment, at the  gentlewoman's at the Two Blue Posts in Haydon-Yard in the  Minories,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {[8],100p. ;},
      year = {1739},
      note = {First published as 'A rational account of the natural  weaknesses of women'.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/497731},
}