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The curious history on several occasions, being part of the works of that noted poet Claudero, son of Nimrod the mighty hunter, and late secretary to the Chevalier Taylor, His Majesty's oculist, and Ophthalmiater Pontifical, Imperial and Royal, to all the Crowned Heads and Sovereign Princes in Europe, Noble and Citizen of Rome.
Claudero, approximately 1730-approximately 1790.Date: [1790?]- Books
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Plocacosmos: or, the whole art of hairdressing; wherein is contained, ample rules for the young artizan, more particularly for ladies women, valets, &c. &c. as well as directions for persons to dress their own hair ... with a history of the hair and headdress ... also complete rules for the management of children ... and ... for the preservation of the health and happiness of age / By James Stewart.
Stewart, James.Date: 1782- Books
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Abdominal and uterine tolerance in pregnant women : as shown by the low rate of mortality under severe lacerated and other wounds, the result of direct violence / by Robert P. Harris.
Harris, Robert P. (Robert Patterson), 1822-1899.Date: 1892- Books
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Every woman's book, containing the best instruction as to the management of children : also, advice as to all the diseases of children; with ample instructions as to cookery for the sick; hints to lying-in women, &c., &c. / by Sarah Coates.
Coates, Sarah.Date: [1840?]- Books
Early modern women's writing : domesticity, privacy, and the public sphere in England and the Dutch Republic / Martine van Elk.
Van Elk, MartineDate: [2017]- 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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Letters to a young lady, on a variety of useful and interesting subjects: calculated to improve the heart, to form the manners, and enlighten the understanding. "That our daughters may be as polished corners of the temple." By the Rev. John Bennett, author of Strictures on female education. In two volumes.
Bennett, John, Curate of St. Mary's, Manchester.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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Letters to a young lady, on a variety of useful and interesting subjects. Calculated to improve the heart, to form the manners, and enlighten the understanding. "That our daughters may be as polished corners of the temple." By the Rev. John Bennett, author of Strictures on female education. In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
Bennett, John, Curate of St. Mary's, Manchester.Date: M,DCC,XCII. [1792]- Books
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Letters to a young lady, on a variety of useful and interesting subjects: calculated to improve the heart, to form the manners, and enlighten the understanding. "That our daughters may be as polished corners of the temple." By the Rev. John Bennett, author of Strictures on female education. In two volumes. Vol I[-II].
Bennett, John, Curate of St. Mary's, Manchester.Date: M,DCC,XCI. [1791]- Books
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Letters to a young lady, on a variety of useful and interesting subjects: calculated to improve the heart, form the manners, and enlighten the understanding. "That our daughters may be as polished corners of the temple." By the Rev. John Bennet [i.e., Bennett], author of Strictures on female education. In two volumes. Vol. I[-II].
Bennett, John, Curate of St. Mary's, Manchester.Date: [1792]- Books
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Healths grand preservative: or The womens best doctor : A treatise, shewing the nature and operation of brandy, rumm, rack, and other distilled spirits, and the ill consequences of mens, but especially of womens drinking such pernicious liquors and smoaking tobacco. As likewise, of the immoderate eating of flesh without a due observation of time, or nature of the creature which hath proved very destructive to the health of many. Together, with a rational discourse of the excellency of herbs, highly approved of by our ancestors in former times. And the reasons why men now so much desire the flesh more than other food. A work highly fit to be persued and observed by all that love their health, and particularly necessary to the female sex, on whose good or ill constitution the health and strength, or sickness and weakness of all [cropped]sterity does in a more especial manner depend. By Tho. Tryon.
Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703Date: 1682- Books
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Woman's superior excellence over man: or, A Reply to the Author of a late Treatise, entitled, Man superior to Woman. In which, the excessive weakness of that Gentleman's Answer to Woman not inferior to Man is exposed; with a plain Demonstration of Woman's natural Right even to Superiority over the Men in Head and Heart; proving their Minds as much more beautiful than the Men's as their Bodies are, and that, had they the same Advantages of Education, they would excel them as much in Sense as they do in Virtue. The whole interspersed with a variety of mannish Characters, which some of the most noted Heroes of the present Age had the Goodness to sit for. By Sophia, a Person of Quality, Author of Woman not inferior to Man.
Sophia, Person of Quality.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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Woman's superior excellence over man: Or, A reply to the author of a late treatise, entitled, Man superior to woman. In which, the excessive weakness of that gentleman's answer to woman not inferior to man is exposed; with a plain demonstration of woman's natural right even to superiority over the men in head and heart; proving their minds as much more beautiful than the men's as their bodies are; and that, had they the same advantages of education, they would excel them as much in sense as they do in virtue. The whole interspersed with a variety of mannish characters, which some of the most noted heroes of the present age had the goodness to fit for. By Sophia, a Person of Quality, author of Woman not inferior to man.
Sophia, Person of Quality.Date: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]- Books
Health's grand preservative: or the womens best doctor. A treatise, showing the nature and operation of brandy, rumm, rack, and other distilled spirits, and the ill consequences of mens, but especially of womens drinking such pernicious liquors and smoaking tobacco. As likewise, of the immoderate eating of flesh ... Together, with a ... discourse of the excellency of herbs ... / [Thomas Tryon].
Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703Date: 1682- Books
The medical companion: treating, according to the most successful practice, 1. The diseases common to warm climates and on ship board. 2. Common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, etc. 3. The complaints peculiar to women and children, with a dispensatory and glossary. To which are added, a brief anatomy of the human body; an essay on hygeine [sic] or the art of preserving health and prolonging life; and an American materia medica, instructing country gentlemen in the very important knowledge of the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants / [James Ewell].
Ewell, James, 1773-1832Date: 1819- Books
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The ladies physical directory: or, a treatise of all the weaknesses, indispositions, and diseases peculiar to the female sex, from eleven years of age to fifty or upwards. BY Which Women and Maids of the meanest Capacity may perfectly understand the Symptoms, Nature, and true Cause of their own Illnesses, and readily know how to manage themselves under all their Infirmities With Proper Remedies in English prescribed for the Green-Sickness. Obstructions. Immoderate Fluxes, Hysterick Affection the Piles and every other Disorder or Distemper the Fair Sex are particularly liable to; whereby they may certainly and quickly Cure themselves, without Trouble, the Advice, or Knowledge of any other Person. To which is Annex'd, A Practical Discourse on Barrenness in Women, and Impotency, Infertility, and Seminal Weaknesses in Men. Directing How they may be infallibly cured, and those Women render'd fruitful, who have been deem'd incurably Barren for many Years; and such Men become able to propagate their Species, who through Imbecility, Seminal Disorders, &c. have for several Years thought impossible. With A Clear and very particular Account of Generation and Conception; and a Digrejon concerning the Method of Begetting Sons rather than Daughters, or of Daughters rather than Sons. Also Of Miscarriage in Women, and how it may be assuredly prevented, even in those who have miscarried nine or ten Times before; with Directions to Ladies how to conduct themselves during their Pregnancy and in Child-Bed, and how to cause a Safe and Easy Delivery. Likewise Ample Instructions to Midwives and Nurses, how to treat their Child-Bed Women with Safety and Success, and several Remedies proper to be administer'd, communicated without Reserve; as also Directions for the better Management of new-born Infants, so as more certainly to preserve their Lives; with a Dissertation concerning Suckling of Children, and Bringing them up by Hand. The Whole Illustrated With various Cases of Persons cured, proper Hints, useful Cautions, Observations, and Instructions, the like for General Benefit to both Sexes never before Published; and highly necessary for every Family in the Nation. By a physician.
Physician.Date: [1739]- Books
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The medical companion : treating, according to the most successful practice, 1. The diseases common to warm climates and on ship board. 2. Common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, etc. 3. The complaints peculiar to women and children ; with a dispensatory and glossary ; to which are added, a brief anatomy of the human body ; an essay on hygieine [sic] or the art of preserving health and prolonging life ; and an American materia medica, instructing country gentlemen in the very important knowledge of the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants.
Ewell, James, 1773-1832.Date: 1819- Books
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The ladies physical directory: or, a treatise of all the weaknesses, indispositions, and diseases peculiar to the female sex, from eleven years of age to fifty and upwards. By which Women and Maids of the meanest Capacity may perfectly understand the Symptoms, Nature, and true Cause of their own Illnesses, and readily know how to manage themselves under all their Infirmities. With Proper Remedies, in English prescribed, for the Green-Sickness, Obstructions, Immoderate Fluxes, Hysterick Affections, the Piles, and every other Disorder or Distemper the Fair Sex are particularly liable to; whereby they may certainly and quickly cure themselves, without Trouble, the Advice, or Knowledge of any other Person. To which is Annex'd, A Practical Discourse on Barrenness in Women, and Impotency, Infertility, and Seminal Weaknesses in Men. Directing How they may be infallibly cured, and those Women render'd fruitful, who have been deem'd incurably Barren for many Years; and such Men become able to propagate their Species, who through Imbecility, Seminal Disorders, &c. have for several Years thought it impossible. With A Clear and very particular Account of Generation and Conception; and a Digression concerning the Method of Begetting Sons rather than Daughters, or of Daughters rather than Sons. Also Of Miscarriage in Women, and how it may be assuredly prevented, even in those who have miscarried nine or ten Times before; with Directions to Ladies how to conduct themselves during their Pregnancy and in Child-Bed, and how to cause a safe and easy Delivery. Likewise Ample Instructions to Midwives and Nurses, how to treat their Child-Bed Women with Safety and Success, and several Remedies, proper to be administer'd, communicated without Reserve; as also Directions for the better Management of new-born Infants, so as more certainly to preserve their Lives: With a Dissertation concerning Suckling of Children, and Bringing them up by Hand. The Whole Illustrated With various Cases of Persons cured, proper Hints, useful Cautions, Observations, and Instructions, the like for General Benefit to both sexes never before Published; and highly necessary for every Family in the Nation. By a physician.
Physician.Date: [1742]- Books
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Healths grand preservative: or The womens best doctor : A treatise, shewing the nature and operation of brandy, rumm, rack, and other distilled spirits, and the ill consequences of mens, but especially of womens drinking such pernicious liquors and smoaking tobacco. As likewise, of the immoderate eating of flesh without a due observation of time, or nature of the creature, which hath proved very destructive to the health of many. Together, with a rational discourse of the excellency of herbs, highly approved of by our ancestors in former times. And the reasons why men now so much desire the flesh more than other food. A work highly fit to be persued and observed by all that love their health, and particularly necessary to the female sex, on whose good or ill constitution the health and strength, or sickness and weakness of all posterity does in a more especial manner depend. By Tho. Tryon.
Tryon, Thomas, 1634-1703Date: 1682- Books
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The medical companion : treating, according to the most successful practice, I. The diseases common to warm climates and on ship board. II. Common cases in surgery, as fractures, dislocations, &c. III. The complaints peculiar to women and children. With a dispensatory and glossary. To which are added, a brief anatomy of the human body; an essay on hygieine [sic] or the art of preserving health and prolonging life; an American materia medica, instructing country gentlemen in the very important knowledge of the virtues and doses of our medicinal plants; also, a concise and impartial history of the capture of Washington and the diseases which sprung from that most deplorable disaster.
Ewell, James, 1773-1832.Date: 1817- Books
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The lady's polite secretary, or new female letter writer. Containing an elegant variety of interesting and instructive letters, intended as Models to form the Style on every Point essential to the Happiness or Entertainment of the Sex. In which are comprised many admired Epistolary Narratives, an Article hitherto unattempted in every Book of the Kind. Likewise several Original Letters of Wit and Sentiment, by Ladies of the first Rank in the Literary World. To which are added, instances, to serve as beacons to the inexperienced, of that flimsy, affected Style and Sentiment, so prevalent in Modern Correspondence, the Delight of our Novelists, and the Bane of our Youth. With Variety of Poetical Letters, Humorous and Pathetic, Sentimental and Descriptive. And Cards of Compliment and Condolance, of Friendship and Resentment. In this Collection are contained Rules to be observed in writing Letters, and the different Forms of Address. To which is prefixed a short, but comprehensive, grammar of th English language. -The Whole so calculated, that any Lady may, in a very short Time, be enabled to write her Thoughts with a becoming Propriety and Ease. By the Right Hon. Lady Dorothea Du Bois.
Du Bois, Dorothea, 1728-1774.Date: [1771]- Books
Ethical issues in women's healthcare : practice and policy / edited by Lori d'Agincourt-Canning, Carolyn Ells.
Date: [2019]- Books
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Women in print : essays on the print culture of American women from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / edited by James P. Danky and Wayne A. Wiegand ; foreword by Elizabeth Long.
Date: [2006], ©2006- Books
I'm supposed to protect you from all this : a memoir / Nadja Spiegelman.
Spiegelman, NadjaDate: 2016- Books
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The midwife's pocket-companion: or a practical treatise of midwifery. On a new plan. Containing full and plain directions for the management and delivery of child-bearing women in the different Cases, and the Cure of the several Diseases incident to them and new born Children, in the safest Manner, and according to the best and newest Improvements. Adapted to the use of the female as well as the male practitioner in that art. In three parts. By John Memis, M. D. Of Marischal-College, Aberdeen.
Memis, John.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]