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.
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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 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. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Printed by John Darby, 1683.

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10 unnumbered leaves, 36, 438 pages, 8 unnumbered pages, 5 folded leaves of engr. plates : illustrations ; (8vo)

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Trans. of Traité des maladies des femmes grosses
Copy 1 Note: Plates v-vii wanting. Several plates dissected and figs. mounted separately. Accession Number 39 473 (May 1917.)

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Wing M1372
ESTC R27109
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), M1372

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