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Childbirth - Early works to 1800
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The pupil of nature; or candid advice to the fair sex, on the subjects of pregnancy; childbirth; the diseases incident to both; the fatal effects of ignorance and quackery; and the most approved means of promoting the health, strength, and beauty of their offspring. By Martha Mears, Practitioner in Midwifery.
Mears, Martha.Date: 1797- Books
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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.
Sermon, William, 1629?-1679Date: 1671- Books
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Some observations made upon the maldiva nut : shewing its admirable virtue in giving an easie, safe, and speedy delivery to women in child-bed / written by a physitian in the countrey to Dr. Hinton at London, 1663.
Physitian in the countrey.Date: 1694- Books
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An account of a male child fourteen inches long, taken after the mothers death out of the left fallopian tube, in Tiverton, November 1714. after having been there near three years, with a copper cut exactly describing the Figure of the child. By Tho. Henley, M.D.
Henley, Thomas, 1679-1740.Date: 1715- Books
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Newes from New-England: of a most strange and prodigious birth, brought to Boston in New-England, October the 17 : being a true and exact relation, brought over April 19. 1642. by a Gentleman of good worth, now resident in London. Also other relations of six strange and prodigious births in these countries following. The 1. from New-England. The 2 from Quieres. The 3d. in Ravena. The 4. in Paris. The 5. in St. Andwes-church in Paris. The 6. in the forrest Biera.
Gentleman of good worth now resident in LondonDate: [1642]