The compleat midvvife’s practice enlarged
Author: Chamberlayne, Thomas Person pageAuthor Occupation: professor
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 perfect rules for midwives and nurses, as also for women in their conception, bearing, and nursing of children: from the experience, not onely of our English, but also the most accomplisht and absolute practicers among the French, Spanish, Italian, and other nations. A work so plain, that the weakest capacity may easily attain the knowledge of the whole art. With instructions of the Queen of France’s midwife to her daughter, a little before her death, touching the practice of the said art. Published with the approbation and good liking of sundry the most knowing professors of midwifry, now living in the City of London, and other places. Illustrated with severall cuts in brasse. The second edition corrected, by R.C. I.D. M.S. T.B. practitioners of the said art. With a full supply of those rare secrets which Mr. Culpeper in his brief treatise of midwifry, and other English writers, have kept close to themselves, concealed, or wholly omitted.
Short Title: The compleat midvvife’s practice enlarged
Imprint: [London] : Printed for Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Cornhill, 1659.
Date: 1659
First Edition: n
Pages: 348
Format: 8
Genre: midwifery manual
Topic: women
Topic: midwifery
Topic: reproduction
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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