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Browse All : Midwifery and Childbirth from 17th Century CE
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Parent Work 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 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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The figure explained
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Plate 1, opposite page 155
Parent Work 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 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.
Page/Sheet
Plate, opposite page 199
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