The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labors. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. Illustrated with divers fair figures, newly and very correctly engraven in copper. A work very much more perfect than any yet extant in English: very necessary for chirurgeons and midwives practising this art / Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. Translated by Hugh Chamberlen ... By whom this second ed. it [sic] reviewed, corrected, and enlarged, with the addition of the author's anatomy.

  • Mauriceau, François, 1637-1709.
Date:
1683
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Credit: The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labors. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. Illustrated with divers fair figures, newly and very correctly engraven in copper. A work very much more perfect than any yet extant in English: very necessary for chirurgeons and midwives practising this art / Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. Translated by Hugh Chamberlen ... By whom this second ed. it [sic] reviewed, corrected, and enlarged, with the addition of the author's anatomy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    deavour to demontftrate exactly the means of remedying many Indifpofitions of Women with Child and in Child-bed, with an exact Method of well-pradtifing the Art of Mid- wifery, being perfwaded that it may be very the Country, where but very few fafficiently inftruted in all things neceflary to be known, can be met with; I have alfo the rather undertaken this, that Midwives may find in it what they ought to know, to ena- ble them the better to exercife their Art,and undergo the Examination, which at prefent they are obliged to before you for their Re- ception; I hope likewife (Gentlemen) you will have the goodnef to excufe it, though not fo fair a Form as the Matter requires, and tho Ido not exprefs the Contents fo perfectly as you conceive them ; for I have (I confef with a little too much confidence) undertaken to open divers Secrets of Na- ture, which (being very abftrufe, and as difficult to be comprehended) create yet in- comparably more trouble to explain them fignificantly, that they may be well under- ftood: notwithftanding, as it is often feen, that a dark Body refle@s the light it receives, the refleGtion of the Sun of your Doétrine,of