Читать книгу The Female Physician онлайн

11 страница из 123

ALL these Things I have endeavour’d to be most particular in, to the end that any Woman, who reads, so as to be conversant with this Book, may know before She sends for her Physician, not only her Distemper, but also the Danger, with which she is threatned upon every Sickly occasion. And in these Things I flatter my self that this Work will prove Acceptable, where such a Number of Diseases and Symptoms are set forth in so clear a Light, that any Person, making use of their Eyes and Reason only, without being any ways vers’d in the Practice of Physick, or Midwifery, may evidently see, perceive, and by Experience find, every individual Case to answer these Ends, and the whole to correspond exactly with its Title and Contents.

BUT upon the whole, if here and there a brief Philosophical way of Reasoning has crept in, I would have you consider, that it could not be avoided; because the Proofs relating to Natural Things are sometimes taken from very minute Instruments; And that the Design of such an Interspersion, is only to assist your Understanding, and conduct your Thoughts through the Work. However in such Cases the Reader may go on, or pass by what does not suit with his Taste, as he pleases. Again if here and there, I have retain’d a Term of Art, which the common Reader may call a hard Word, I declare it is out of no Design to amuse any one, but out of mere Necessity, since otherways I should have been ridiculously singular, and far less understood: In the mean time I have taken what Care I could to explain the most, or at least the most requisite of These, insomuch that whatever Words or Sentences of this Kind are not fully interpreted, you may slip over, without losing any thing Material of the Purport of the Matter, such Things concerning the Practitioner more than the common Reader.