The ladies companion, or, The English midwife. Wherein is demonstrated, the manner and order how…

Author: Sermon, William Person page
Author Occupation: royal practitioner
Author Occupation: physician
Publisher: Thomas, Edward   Person page
Title: The ladies companion, or, The English midwife. Wherein is demonstrated, the manner and order how women ought to govern themselves, during the whole time of their breeding children; and of their difficult labour, hard travail and lying-in, etc. Together with the diseases they are subject to (especially in such times) and the several wayes and means to help them. Also the various forms of the childs proceeding forth of the womb, in 17. copper cuts; with a discourse of the parts principally serving for generation. Digested into a small volume, by William Sermon Doctor in Physick, one of His Majesties Physicians in Ordinary; author of those most famous Cathartique and Diuretique pills, so well known for curing of the dropsie, scurvey, and all other sharp, salt, and watry humours, &c.
Short Title: The ladies companion, or, The English midwife. Wherein is demonstrated, the manner and order how…
Imprint: London : printed for Edward Thomas, at the Adam and Eve in Little-britain, 1671.
Date: 1671
First Edition: y
Pages: 224
Format: 8
Genre: midwifery manual
Topic: midwifery
Topic: reproduction
Topic: women
Place of: Publisher    Place: the Adam and Eve in Little Britain, London
Place of: Printer    Place: [unspecified], London
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