The Compleat midwife's practice enlarged : in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man : containing a perfect directory, or rules for midwives and nurses : as also a guide for women in their conception, bearing, and nursing of children ... with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter ... touching the practice of the said art.

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1663
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[London] : Printed for Nath. Brook ..., 1663.

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321 pages, 6 leaves of plates : illustrations

Edition

The third edition enlarged

Notes

Contains frontispiece portrait with caption: The expert and famous Madam Louys Bourgeois, midwife to the Queene of France.
Imperfect: pages stained, with print show-through and loss of print.
Reproduction of original in the British Library.

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Wing C99

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1546:7) s1999 miun s

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