The midwives book, or, The whole art of midwifry discovered : Directing childbearing women how to behave themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children in six books, viz. ... / By Mrs. Jane Sharp practitioner in the art of midwifry above thirty years.

Midwives book

Whole art of midwifry discovered

London : Printed for Simon Miller, at the Star at the West End of St. Pauls, 1671.

12 unnumbered pages, 418 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates (folded) : illustrations

Wing (2nd ed.) S2969B

Publisher's catalog on [4] p. at end.

Some errors in pagination.

Imperfect: print show-through.

Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

I. An anatomical description of the parts of men and women. -- II. What is requisite for procreation : signs of a womans being with child, and whether it be male or female, and how the child is formed in the womb. -- III. The causes and hindrances of conception and barrenness and of the paines and difficulties of childbearing with their causes, signes and cures. -- IV. Rules to know when a woman is near her labour, and when she is near conception, and how to order the child when born. -- V. How to order women in childbirth, and of several diseases and cures for women in that condition. -- VI. Of diseases incident to women after conception. Rules for the choice of a nurse; her office; with proper cures for all diseases incident in young children.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2273:4) s1999 miun s