The midwives book, or, The whole art of midwifry discovered: Directing childbearing women how to behave themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children in six books, viz
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Main Author: Sharp, Jane (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London Printed for Simon Miller, at the Star at the West End of St. Pauls 1671
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Item Description:Imperfect: print show-through. - Publisher's catalog on [4] p. at end. - Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California. - Some errors in pagination. - Wing (2nd ed.), S2969B
I. An anatomical description of the parts of men and women. -- II. What is requisite for procreation : signs of a womans being with child, and whether it be male or female, and how the child is formed in the womb. -- III. The causes and hindrances of conception and barrenness and of the paines and difficulties of childbearing with their causes, signes and cures. -- IV. Rules to know when a woman is near her labour, and when she is near conception, and how to order the child when born. -- V. How to order women in childbirth, and of several diseases and cures for women in that condition. -- VI. Of diseases incident to women after conception. Rules for the choice of a nurse; her office; with proper cures for all diseases incident in young children
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