A directory for midwives:, or, A guide for women, in their conception, bearing and suckling their children : Containing 1. The anatomic of the vessels of generation. 2. The formation of the child in the womb. 3. What hinders conception, and its remedies. 4. What furthers conception. 6. Of miscarriage in women. 7. A guide for women in their labor. 8. A guide for women in their lying-in. 9. Of nursing children. / By Nicholas Culpeper, gent. Student in physick and astrologie.
- Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654
- Date:
- 1651
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About this work
Also known as
Guide for women
Publication/Creation
London : Printed by Peter Cole ..., 1651.
Physical description
32 unnumbered pages, 217 pages, 23 unnumbered pages : portrait
Contributors
References note
Wing C7488
Notes
Woodcut portrait, p. [1].
Volume 2 has special t.p. with title: Culpeper's directory for midwives.
Vol. 2 has caption title: The fourth book of practical physick of womens diseases.
Advertisement: p. [28]-[31] at beginning.
Errata, p. [2] at end.
"An interpretation of certain crabbed names": p. [3]-[7] at end.
Contents, p. [8]-[23] at end.
Pages 53-54 of v. 1 are mutilated. Pages 50-75 photographed from the Surgeon General's Library copy and are inserted at end.
Reproduction of original in Cushing Collection, Yale University Medical School Library.
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 90:15) s1999 miun s