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Gli ornamenti delle donne / scritti per M. Giovanni Marinello ; et diuisi in quattro libri. Ne quali si racconta, come vaghe, e belle possono con l'arte apparir le donne. Con due tauole copiosissime, vna de' capitoli, e l'altra d'alcune cose particolari ; opera vtile, & necessaria ad ogni gentile persona.
Marinello, Giovanni, active 16th century.Date: 1610- Books
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The ladies friend; or, complete physical library, for the benefit and particular use of the ladies of Great Britain and Ireland; treating of ... various symptoms of all their diseases, ... To which is annexed, The practical midwife, ... The fourth edition, with additions and alterations. By S. Freeman, ...
Freeman, Stephen, M.D.Date: [1785?]- Books
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Every woman her own physician; or, the lady's medical assistant. Containing the history and cure of the various diseases incident to women and children. The Whole rendered intelligible by Prescriptions in English of the respective Medicines proper to be given in every Disease; and Delivered in such a plain and familiar Manner, that Every Woman of common Capacity may safely prescribe for Herself, her Acquaintance, and her poor Neighbours. By A. Hume, M. D.
Hume, A., M.D.Date: MDCCLXXVI. [1776]- Books
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The ladies' friend, and family physical library. The midwifery in this edition is by question and answer. With thirteen curious engravings of the natural and unnatural position of the infant as it lies in the Womb. With a true Description and Cure of every Disease incident to married and single Women, as well as those of young Children. Though this Book is wrote in so familiar and plain a Manner to every one's Understanding, yet the young Physician, Surgeon, Apothecary, Anatomist, Midwife, and Chemist, by paying Attention may at least refresh their Memories, if not gain Instruction. This Work contains at least three Times more than any former Edition. The additions are, A Compendium of Anatomy, by Question and Answer. A Formulae for the Diseases incident to the white and black Inhabitants of the Indies, together with the medical Remedies that Country produces for each Disease. A Treatise of Cancers, with the Case of Mrs. Phillips, of Birmingham, describing the Remedy that the Author made Use of to extirpate a Cancer from her Breast, which weighed about seven ounces: She was upwards of fifty Years of Age. A Bilious Case and Cure of Miss A-, Daughter of an eminent Surgeon of Wolverhampton. A Philosophical Account of the Voice, Speech, Singing, Laughing, Coughing, and Sounds, &c. Of the Structure and Motion of the Muscles, according to the Doctrine of Sir Isaac Newton. Philosophical Doctrine of Pulses. The Medical Qualities of Milk, and of Whey, for Diseases in general. Of ... or, Pathological Aitiology, &c. The Method to recover Persons supposed to be drowned. The Dispensary of the Royal Hospital of Edinburgh, for the afflicted Poor. Translated from the Latin Copy. The fifth edition. By S. Freeman, M.D. of Kings College University, Aberdeen: and Member of the Society of Polite Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, London.
Freeman, Stephen, M.D.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The ladies dispensatory: or every woman her own physician. Treating of the nature, causes, and various symptoms, of all the diseases, infirmities, and disorders, natural or contracted, that most peculiarly affect the fair sex, in all their different Situations of Life, as Maids, Married Women, and Widows; Under the following Heads: Of contracted Weakness, before Marriage especially; with proper Advice concerning it. Of the Courses, their various Irregularities, as Suppression, Obstruction, immoderate Flux, Suppuration, Complication with other Diseases, &c. Of the Hysteric Disease, or Vapours, and all Hypochondriacal Disorders: Also of the Green Sickness, and Furor Uterinus. Of the Whites, the Piles, Relaxations of the Uterus and Fundament, Swellings, Ulcers, and other Uterine Affections. Of the Generative Parts in a Woman; with an Account of Generation and Conception, and other curious Particulars relating to the Use of the Marriage-Bed. Of Barrenness in Women, and Impotency in Men, in all the possible known Circumstances of either. Of the Management of Women with Child, and the Disorders attending Pregnancy: Likewise of Moles, False Conception, and Miscarriage. Of the Symptoms preceding, and Disorders attending Delivery, whether natural, difficult, or unnatural; with particular Directions regarding the Office of a Midwife. Of the Disorders consequent upon Delivery, both in the Breasts and elsewhere, both those immediate and those of longer Continuance. Of the Management of new-born Infants, and the Diseases they are usually subject to, from their Birth till four or five Years of Age. With variety of proper remedies, in Words at length, adapted to each Particular Case, agreeably to the best modern Practice: By the Help of which any Maid or Woman, who can read English, may not only come at a true Knowledge of her Indisposition, but be enabled to cure it without applying, or even discovering her Condition, to any Person living. Als a compleat index, an Explanation of difficult Terms, and a copious Preface, including a pathetick Address to all fashionable Mothers, in behalf of themselves and their tender Off-Spring.
Date: [1755?]