Culpepper's compleat and experienc'd midwife : in two parts. I. A guide for childbearing women, in the time of their conception, bearing, and suckling their children, with the best means of helping them, both in natural, and unnatural labours, together with suitable remedies for the various indisposition of new-born infants. II. Proper and safe remedies for the curing all those distempers that are incident to the female sex, and more especially those that are any obstruction to their bearing of children a work far more perfect than any yet extant, and highly necessary for all surgeons, midwives, nurses, and child-bearing women / Made English by W[illiam] S[almon], M.D.

  • Aristotle, pseud.
Date:
1718
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Also known as

Complete midwife. English
Aristotle's Compleat and experienc'd midwife
Compleat and experienc'd midwife
Experienc'd midwife
A guide for childbearing women ...

Publication/Creation

London : Printed, and sold by the booksellers, 1718.

Physical description

1 unnumbered leaf, iv, 168 pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations, frontispiece ; (12mo)

Edition

The third edition.

References note

ESTC T136627

Notes

W-- S-- identified as William Salmon--cf. Power, D. The foundations of med. hist., 1931, p. 171
Signatures: A12(-A1) B-G12 H4.
Other editions of this work attributed to Aristotle, pseud. and issued under the title, Aristotle's Compleat and experienc'd midwife--cf. Wellcome cat. of printed books

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