Concept
Midwifery - Early works to 1800
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Aristotle's master-piece improved. : In four parts. Containing part I. Of marriages, and at what age young men, and virgins are capable of it. Part II. Of monsters, and monstrous births, and the several reasons thereof, with divers examples. Part III. What conception is; and what is pre-requisite thereto. Part IV. Directions for midwives how to assist women in the time of their labour; and how child-bearing women should be ordered in the time of their lying-in Adapted to the meanest capacities, and much more correct than any yet published. With contents to the whole.
Date: [approximately 1731]- Books
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Aristotle's compleat and experienc'd midwife : In two parts. I. A guide for child-bearing women in the time of their conception, bearing, and suckling their children; with the best means of helping them, both in natural, and unnatural labours: together with suitable remedies for the various indisposition of new-born infants. II. Proper and safe remedies for the curing all those distempers that are incident to the female sex; and more especially those that are any obstruction to their bearing of children. A work far more perfect than any yet extant; and highly necessary for all surgeons, widwives, nurses, and child-bearing women. Made English by W- S-, M.D.
Date: MDCC. [1700]