The expert midwife, or An excellent and most necessary treatise of the generation and birth of man : Wherein is contained many very notable and necessary particulars requisite to be knovvne and practised: with diuers apt and usefull figures appropriated to this worke. Also the causes, signes, and various cures, of the most principall maladies and infirmities incident to women. Six bookes compiled in Latine by the industry of Iames Rueff, a learned and expert chirurgion: and now translated into English for the generall good and benefit of this nation.

  • Rüff, Jakob, 1500-1558
Date:
1637
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De conceptu et generatione hominis. English
Excellent and most necessary treatise of the generation and birth of man.

Publication/Creation

London : Printed by E. G[riffin] for S. B[urton] and are to be sold by Thomas Alchorn at the signe of the Greene Dragon in Saint Pauls church-yard, 1637.

Physical description

16 unnumbered pages, 192, 120 pages : illustrations

References note

STC (2nd ed.) 21442.

Notes

Signatures: A-N, 2A-2H.
Printers' names from STC.
A translation of:Rüff, Jakob. De conceptu et generatione hominis.
Pagination and signatures begin anew at Lib. 5, Chap. 6.
Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1475-1640 ; 1004:08) s1999 miun s

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