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Midwifery

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  • Die königl. preussische und chur-brandenb. Hof-Wehe-Mütter, das ist: ein höchst nöthiger Unterricht von schweren und unrecht-stehenden Gebuhrten, in einem Gespräch vorgestellet / Justinen Siegemunden.
  • The birth of mankynde : otherwyse named the womans booke. / Newly set forth, corrected, and augmented. Whose contentes ye may reade in the table of the booke, and most playnely in the prologue. By Thomas Raynalde phisition.
  • Tableaux interrogatifs, ou Nouvelle méthode d'enseigner l'art des accouchemens [sic] aux sages-femmes de la campagne. 3e. tableau, Des parties molles qui ont rapport au bassin / École départementale de l'Ain.
  • L'art des accouchemens, démontré par des principes de physique et de mechanique. Pour servir d'introduction & de base à des leçons particulières / Par M. André Levret.
  • Accoucheurs et sages-femmes célébres : esquisses biographiques / par G.-J. Witkowski.
  • The byrth of mankynde, newly translated out of Laten into Englysshe. : In the which is entreated of all suche thynges the which chaunce to women in theyr labor, and all suche infyrmitees whiche happen vnto the infantes after they be delyuered. And also at the latter ende o in the thyrde or last boke is entreated of the conception of mankynde, and howe manye wayes it may be letted or furtheryd, with diuers other fruytefull thynges, as doth appere in the table before the booke.
  • The birth of mankynde : otherwyse named the womans booke. / Newly set forth, corrected, and augmented. Whose contentes ye may reade in the table of the booke, and most playnely in the prologue. By Thomas Raynalde phisition.
  • A sett of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment, of the practice of midwifery, with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases / By William Smellie, M.D.
  • Die königl. preussische und chur-brandenb. Hof-Wehe-Mütter, das ist: ein höchst nöthiger Unterricht von schweren und unrecht-stehenden Gebuhrten, in einem Gespräch vorgestellet / Justinen Siegemunden.
  • Abbildungen aus dem Gesammtegebiete der theoretisch-praktischen Geburtshülfe, nebst beschreibender Erklärung derselben / Nach dem Französischen ... bearbeitet und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Eduard Casp. Jac. von Siebold.
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Works

    • Journals

    Annual report / Royal College of Midwives.

    Royal College of Midwives (Great Britain)
    • Books

    A manual of midwifery for students and practitioners / by Henry Jellett and David G. Madill ; with the assistance in special subjects of W.R. Dawson [and others].

    Jellett, Henry, 1872-1948 | Date: 1921
    • Books

    The traditional birth attendant in seven countries : case studies in utilization and training / edited by A. Mangay-Maglacas and H. Pizurki.

    | Date: 1981
    • Books

    Lectures to practising midwives / by Victoria E.M. Bennett.

    Bennett, Victoria E. M. (Victoria Evelyn May) | Date: 1909
  • view Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. F.R.S. Edin. ; Professor of midwifery in the university, and member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.
    • Books
    • Online

    Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. F.R.S. Edin. ; Professor of midwifery in the university, and member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.

    Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802 | Date: MDCCXC [1790]
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