Instruction to midwives

Date:
c.1750
Reference:
MS.1720/7
Part of:
Collected papers on gynaecology and obstetrics.
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Description

“Instruction pour les sages-femmes et les nourrisses (sic) à laquelle on prie toutes les personnes charitables de s’intéresser”. On the necessity of prompt baptism by the midwife in the cases of danger, and on the care to be taken by nurses against overlaying their charges.

Publication/Creation

c.1750

Physical description

14 pp. 8vo. 171/2 x 11 cm. Original paper covers.

Acquisition note

Purchased 1930.

Finding aids

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

Ownership note

From the Berhard VI Collection.

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Accession number

  • 55450