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The flood: women shelter in fear by a tree, as the deluge sweeps the land. Engraving by L. Truchy.
Date: 1700-1799Reference: 15708i- Books
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A dialogue concerning the subjection of women to their husbands. Published for the benefit of all His Majesty's married subjects, in Great Britain, Ireland, and the dominions thereunto belonging and appertaining. In which is interspersed, some observations on courtship, for the use of the batchelors. By a friend to the ladies.
Friend to the ladies.Date: 1765- Books
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The birth of mankind, otherwise called, The womans book. Or, A guide for vvomen : in their conception. Bearing, and suckling their children. Containing 1. The anatomie of the vessel of generation. 2. The formation of the child in the womb. 3. What hinders conception; and its remedies. 4. What furthers conception. 5. A guide for women in conception. 6. Of miscarriage in women. 7. A guide for women in labour. 8. A guide for women in their lying in. 9. Of nursing of children. Illustrated with figures. Translated into English by Thomas Reynald, doctor of physick.
Rösslin, Eucharius, -1526Date: 1654- Books
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The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also, the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit Remedies for the several Indispositions of New-Born Babes. To which is prefix'd an exact description of the parts of generation in women. A Work much more perfect than any now extant, and very necessary for all, especially Midwives and Men practising that Art. The fourth edition corrected, and augmented with several new figures, and with the Description of an excellent Instrument to bring a Child that comes right; All correctly Engraven in Copper. Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. And translated by Hugh Chamberlen, M.D.
Mauriceau, François, 1637-1709.Date: 1710- Books
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The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also, the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labours. With sit Remedies for the several Indispositions of New-Born Babes. To which is prefix'd an exact description of the parts of generation in women. A Work much more perfect than any now extant, and very necessary for all, especially Midwives and Men practising that Art. The fifth edition corrected, and augmented with several ne figures, and with the Description of an excellent Instrument to bring a Child that comes right; All correctly Engraven in Copper. Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. And translated by Hugh Chamberlen, M.D.
Mauriceau, François, 1637-1709.Date: 1716- Books
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The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also, the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit Remedies for the several Indispositions of New-Born Babes. To which is prefix'd an exact description of the parts of generation in women. A Work much more perfect than any now extant, and very necessary for all, especially Midwives and Men practising that Art. The sixth edition corrected, and augmented with several ne w figures, and with the Description of an excellent Instrument to bring a Child that comes right; All correctly Engraven in Copper. Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. And translated by Hugh Chamberlen, M.D.
Mauriceau, François, 1637-1709.Date: 1718- Books
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A discourse concerning gleets. Their cause and cure. With a prefatory account of Professor Boerhaave's new comments on the venereal disease; and some Animadversions thereon. Address'd to the Surgeons in the City of London. To which is added, a defence of the 12th chapter of the first part of a treatise De morbis cutaneis, in respect to the Spots and Marks impress'd upon the Skin of the Foetus, by the Force of the Mother's Fancy: containing some remarks upon a discourse lately printed and entituled, The strength of imagination in pregnant women examin'd, &c. Whereby it is made plain, notwithstanding all the Objections therein, that the said Imagination in the Pregnant Woman, is capable of maiming, and does often both mutilate and mark the Foetus, or that the same, as he insinuates, is not a vulgar Error. In a Letter to the Author. By Daniel Turner, of the College of Physicians in London.
Turner, Daniel, 1667-1741.Date: 1729- Books
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The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed : as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. To which is prefix'd an Anatomical treatise. All illustrated with divers fair figures, correctly engraven in copper. A work much more perfect than any now extant in English; being and very necessary for all chirurgeons and midwives practising this art. Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. Translated by Hugh Chamberlen, M.D.
Mauriceau, François, 1637-1709Date: 1697- Books
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The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also, the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit Remedies for the several Indispositions of New-Born Babes. To which is prefix'd an exact description of the parts of generation in women. A Work much more perfect than any now extant, and very necessary for all, especially Midwives and Men practising that Art. The fourth edition corrected, and augmented with several new figures, and with the Description of an excellent Instrument to bring a Child that comes right; All correctly Engraven in Copper. Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. And translated by Hugh Chamberlen, M.D.
Mauriceau, François, 1637-1709.Date: 1710- Books
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The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also, the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit Remedies for the several Indispositions of New-Born Babes. To which is prefix'd, an exact description of the parts of generation in women. A Work much more perfect than any now extant, and very necessary for all, especially Midwives and Men practising that Art. The seventh edition corrected, and augmented with several new Figures, and with the Description of an excellent Instrument to bring a Child that comes right; all correctly Engraven in Copper. Written in French by Francis Mauriceau, and translated by Hugh Chamberlen, M.D.
Mauriceau, François, 1637-1709.Date: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]- Books
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The female orators: or, the courage and constancy of divers famous queens, and illustrious women, set forth in their eloquent orations, and noble resolutions: worthy the perusal and imitation of the female sex. English'd from the French edition of Monsieur de Scudery.
Scudéry, Madeleine de, 1607-1701.Date: 1714- Books
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Serious and comical essays, viz. On the town. --- The art of pleasing in women. -On the Readers of this Book. -The Play-Houses. -The Universities. On Politicians and Coffee-Houses. Philosophy not Proof against Love. -Self-Conceit. -Tea-Tables. -Swearing aud Profane Jesting. -Travel. -The Court. -Flattery, &c. With ingenious letters amorous and gallant. Occasional thoughts and Reflections on Men and Manners. Also the English epigrammatist, and the instructive library. To which is added, satyrical and panegyrical characters. Fitted to the Humours of the Time. By a person of quality.
Person of quality.Date: 1710- Books
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Nurses for the needy, or, Bible-women nurses in the homes of the London poor / by L.N.R.
L. N. R., 1810-1879.Date: 1875- Books
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A reply to a late defence of the pamphlet intituled, Baptism with water and infant-baptism asserted: Wherein the mistakes of the author of that defence are farther rectified, and his reasonings farther confuted. With an appendix, containing some remarks on the preface to a late reply to the Protestant flail; and shewing, that the reformation from popery, in England, was in a great measure owing to the zeal and constancy of illiterate men and women; and that the people called Quakers have been, and are, the most thorough-Protestant reformers in the world.
Besse, Joseph, 1683?-1757.Date: 1736- Books
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Reflections on slow and painful labours, and other subjects in midwifery. Together with observations on several disorders incident to pregnant women. Interspersed with Remarks on Dr. Burton's Letter to Dr. Smellie, in which the Merits of the Cause between these two Authors are, in some Measure, considered. By Giles Watts, M.D.
Watts, Giles, 1725-1792.Date: M.DCC.LV. [1755]- Books
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Reflections on slow and painful labours, and other subjects in midwifery. Together with observations on several disorders incident to pregnant women. Interspersed with remarks on Dr. Burton's letter to Dr. Smellie, ... / By Giles Watts, M.D.
Watts, Giles, 1725-1792.Date: M.DCC.LV. [1755]- Books
Palette : the beauty bible for women of colour / Funmi Fetto ; illustrated by Spiros Halaris.
Fetto, FunmiDate: 2019- Books
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A mechanical account of the cause and cure of a virulent gonorrhæa in both sexes, Wherein is plainly Demonstrated, as well from the Nature and Seat of that Disease, as the Experience of several Years Practice, that its Cure is Safer, Easier and sooner Effected by Topical Applications only, than by any manner of Physick taken by the Mouth. To which is added by way of appendix a short account of the cause and cure of whites in women.
Garlick, T. (Thomas).Date: 1719- Books
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A treatise of the hypochondriack and hysterick passions, Vulgarly call'd the hypo in men and vapours in women; in which the symptoms, causes, and cure of those diseases are set forth after a method intirely new. The whole interspers'd, with instructive discourses on the real art of physick itself; and entertaining remarks on the modern practice of physicians and apothecaries: very useful to all, that have the misfortune to stand in need of either. In three dialogues. By B. De Mandeville, M.D.
Mandeville, Bernard, 1670-1733.Date: 1715- Books
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Palmistry, the secrets thereof disclosed; or a familiar, easie, and new method, whereby to judge of the most general accidents of man's life from the lines of the hand : with all its dimentions and significations. Also many particulars added, discovering the safety and danger of women in child-bed. With some choice of observations of physiognomy; and the moles of the body, and other delightful conclusions. The fourth time imprinted, and much inlarged by the author: Richard Saunders, author of the former book of chyromancy and physiognomy.
Saunders, Richard, 1613-1675Date: 1676- Books
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The dancing-master: Or, the art of dancing explained. Wherein the manner of performing all steps in ball dancing is made easy by a new and familiar method. In two parts. The first, treating of the proper positions and different attitudes for men and women, from which all the steps are to be taken and performed; adorned with instructive figures: with a description of the menuet figure, shewing the beautiful turns and graceful motions of the body in that dance. The second, of the use and graceful motion of the arms with the legs in taking the proper movements and forming the contracts, with figures for the better explanation. The whole containing sixty figures drawn from the life, and curiously engraved on copper plates. Done from the French of Monsieur Rameau, by J. Essex, dancing-master.
Rameau, Pierre.Date: M.DCC.XXVIII. [1728]- Books
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Madam Johnson's present; or, the best instructions for young women, in useful and universal knowledge. With a summary of the late Marriage Act, and Instructions how to marry purinant thereto. Digested under the following Heads. I. An Estimate of the Expences of a Family in the middling Station of Life. II. The Art and Terms of Carving, Fish, Fowl, and Flesh. III. A Bill of Fare for every Month in the Year for Dinner and Supper, and also for extraordinary Occasions. IV. The young Woman's Guide to Knowledge. V. A new English Spelling Dictionary. VI. The Compleat Market-Woman. Vii. The Cook's Guide for dressing all Sorts of Flesh Fowl and Fish. Viii. Pickling, Pastry, and Confectionary. With several useful tables, being the compleatest Book of the Kind ever published.
Johnson, Mary, active 1753.Date: [1755]- Books
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The treasurie of hidden secrets : commonly called, The good-huswives closet of prouision for the health of her houshold. / Gathered out of sundry experiments, lately practised by men of great knowledge: and now newly enlarged, with divers necessary physicke helpes, and knowledge of the names and naturall disposition of diseases, that most commonly happen to men and women. Not impertinent for euery good huswife to vse in her house, amongst her owne familie.
Partridge, John, active 1566-1573Date: 1627- Books
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Palmistry, the secrets thereof disclosed, or a familiar easy, and new method, whereby to iudge of the most general accidents of mans life from the lines of the hand : withal its dimensions and significations. Also many perticulars added, discovering the safety and danger of women in child-bed. VVith some choice of observations of phisiognomy, and the moles of the body. As also that most useful piece of astrology (long since promised) concerning elections for every particular occasion, now plainly manifested from rational principles of art. The second time imprinted. And much inlarged by the author, Richard Saunders, author of the former book of chyromancy and phisiognomy.
Saunders, Richard, 1613-1675Date: 1664- Books
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Etmullerus abridg'd: or, A compleat system of the theory and practice of physic. Being a description of all diseases incident to men, women and children. With an account of their causes, symptoms, and most approved methods of cure, physical and chirurgical. To which is prefix'd a short view of the animal and vital functions; and the several vertues and classes of med'cines. Translated from the last edition of the works of Michael Etmullerus, late professor of physic in the University of Leiptsich.
Ettmüller, Michael, 1644-1683Date: 1699