Detail View: Rylands Collection:
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Image Number:
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JRL16051949
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Reference Number:
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Medical (pre-1701) 2302
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Link to Catalogue:
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Parent Work Title:
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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 a 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.
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Creator:
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Miller, Simon, active 1653-1684
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Creator:
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Sharp, Jane
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Creator Role:
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Author
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Date Created:
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1671
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Publication Details:
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London : printed for Simon Miller
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Page/Sheet:
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Plate, opposite page 199
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Description:
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Illustration: eight anatomical drawings of the foetus in the womb.
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Subject:
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Midwifery
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Subject:
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Childbirth
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Category of Material:
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Printed
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Support:
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Paper
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Time Period Covered:
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17th Century CE
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Current Repository:
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The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
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Provenance:
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Parkinson Collection
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Rights Holder - Image:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Rights holder - Work:
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The University of Manchester Library
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Date Captured (yyyy-mm-dd):
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2016-05-23
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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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2016-05
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Metadata Language:
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eng-GB
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Collection Code:
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Rylands
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