Detail View: Rylands Collection: Illustrations of the child in utero
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Image Number:
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JRL15050700
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Reference Number:
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Medical (pre-1701) 570
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Link to Catalogue:
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Image Title:
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Illustrations of the child in utero
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Parent Work Title:
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Compleat Midwife'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 experience of our English authors. Viz. Sir Theodore Mayern, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpeper, and others of foreign 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. As also a farther discovery of those secrets kept close in the breast of Sir Theodore Mayern, Mr. Nicholas Culpeper, and other English writiers, not made publick till now. The fifth edition correct, and much enlarged, by John Pechey. The whole illustrated with copper plates.
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Alternative Parent Work Title:
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The Compleat midwife's practice enlarged, in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man
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Creator:
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Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de, Sir, 1573-1655
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Creator:
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Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Creator:
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Bettesworth, Arthur, -1739
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Creator Role:
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Printer
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Date Created:
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1699
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Publication Details:
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London: A Bettesworth
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Page/Sheet:
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142, Plate
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Description:
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Copperplate engraving in an English midwifery guide with 6 illustrations of the child in utero (numbered 1-6).
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Keyword:
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Medical Illustration; Midwifery; Obstetrics; Childbirth.
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Language Code:
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eng-GB
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Language:
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English
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Subject:
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Medicine--History
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Subject:
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Medicine
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Subject:
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Obstetrics
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Category of Material:
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Printed
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Sub-Category:
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Illustrated works
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Technique Used:
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Copper engraving (printing process)
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Medium:
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Ink
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Support:
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Paper
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, UK
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Access Rights:
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Bibliographic Citation:
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2015-05-28
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Image Creation Technique:
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Digital capture by The University of Manchester Library
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Date Image Added (yyyy-mm):
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2015-09
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Educational Notes:
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Early Medical Illustration Project
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Academic Project Lead:
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Cordelia Warr
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Academic Project Lead:
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Hannah Priest
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Collection Code:
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Rylands
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