The compleat midvvife’s practice enlarged, in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth…

Author: Chamberlayne, Thomas Person page
Author Occupation: midwife
Publisher: Brook, Nathaniel   Person page
Title: The compleat midvvife’s practice enlarged, in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man. Containing a perfect directory, or rules for midwives and nurses. As also a guide for women in their conception, bearing, and nursing of children: from the experienc of our English, viz. Sir Theodore Mayern, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpeper, and others of forreign nations. With instructions of the Queen of France’s midwife to her daughter, a little before her death, touching the practice of the said art. The third edition enlarged, with the addition of Sir Theodore Mayern’s rare secrets in midwifry, with the approbation of sundry the most knowing professors of midwifry now living in the city of London and other places ... With a further discovery of those secrets kept close in the brest of Mr. Nich. Culpeper, ... A work so plain, that the weakest capacity may easily attain ... Illustrated with severall cutts in brass.
Short Title: The compleat midvvife’s practice enlarged, in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth…
Imprint: [London] : Printed for Nath. Brook at the Angel in Corn-hill, 1663.
Date: 1663
First Edition: n
Pages: 377
Format: 8
Genre: midwifery manual
Topic: midwifery
Topic: reproduction
Topic: women
Place of: Publisher    Place: the Angel [in Popes-head-Alley] in Cornhill [near the Royal Exchange], London
Place of: Printer    Place: [unspecified], London
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