The midwives book. Or the whole art of midwifry discovered. Directing childbearing women how to…

Author: Sharp, Jane Person page
Author Occupation: midwife
Publisher: Miller, Simon   Person page
Title: 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. I. An anatomical description of the parts of men and women. II. What is requisite for procreation: signes 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 hinderance 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 to young children. By Mrs. Jane Sharp practitioner in the art of midwifry above thirty years.
Short Title: The midwives book. Or the whole art of midwifry discovered. Directing childbearing women how to…
Imprint: London : printed for Simon Miller, at the Star at the west end of St. Pauls, 1671.
Date: 1671
First Edition: y
Pages: 440
Format: 12
Genre: midwifery manual
Topic: midwifery
Topic: reproduction
Topic: women
Place of: Publisher    Place: Star at the west end of St. Pauls, London
Place of: Printer    Place: [unspecified], London
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