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A directory for midvvives, or, a guide for women, in their conception, bearing, and suckling their children. Containing, 1. The anatomie 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 Nich. Culpeper, Gent. Student in physick and astrologie.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1651- Books
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The expert midwife, or An excellent and most necessary treatise of the generation and birth of man : Wherein is contained many very notable and necessary particulars requisite to be knovvne and practised: with diuers apt and usefull figures appropriated to this worke. Also the causes, signes, and various cures, of the most principall maladies and infirmities incident to women. Six bookes compiled in Latine by the industry of Iames Rueff, a learned and expert chirurgion: and now translated into English for the generall good and benefit of this nation.
Rüff, Jakob, 1500-1558Date: 1637- Books
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The compleat midvvife's practice enlarged : In the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man. Containing perfect rules for midwives and nurses, as also for women in their conception, bearing, and nursing of children: from the experience, not onely of our English, but also the most accomplisht and absolute practicers among the French, Spanish, Italian, and other nations. A work so plain, that the weakest capacity may easily attain the knowledge of the whole art. With instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter, a little before her death, touching the practice of the said art. Published with the approbation and good liking of sundry the most knowing professors of midwifry, now living in the City of London, and other places. Illustrated with severall cuts in brasse.
Chamberlayne, ThomasDate: 1659- Books
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A rich closet of physical secrets : collected together by the elaborate paines of four severall students in physick, and digested together ... : with certain approved medicines taken out of manuscript, found at the dissolution of one of our English abbies, and supplied with some of his own experiments, by a late English doctor.
A. MDate: [1653]- Books
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The works of Aristotle, the famous philosopher. In four parts. Containing I. His complete master-piece; displaying the secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man. - To which is added, The Family Physician; being approved remedies for the several distempers incident to the human body. II. His experienced midwife; absolutely necessary for Surgeons, Midwives, Nurses, and Child-Bearing Women. III. His book of problems; containing various Questions and answers, relative to the state of Man's body. IV. His last legacy, unfolding the Secrets of Nature respecting the Generation of Man.
Salmon, William, 1644-1713.Date: Printed in the Year M,DCC,XCI. [1791]- Books
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La cause de l'humanité, référée au tribunal du bon sens & de la raison: ou traité sur les accouchemens par les femmes. ... Par Elizabeth Nihell, ... Traduit de l'anglois.
Nihell, Elizabeth, 1723-Date: 1771- Books
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Artis obstetricari? compendium tam theoriam quam praxin spectans: Morborum omnium qui Foeminis inter gestandum in Utero, & in Puerperio, nec-non Infantibus supervenire solent Curationem totam complectens. Huc accedunt morborum omnium, quibus Corpus humanum est obnoxium naturam investigandi methodus vera & accuratissima, illorum Curationem efficacissimam indigitans: et observationes nonnull? ad praxin generalem medicin? attinentes: in usum medicin? tyronum auctore Richardo Manningham, Equite, M. D. R. S. S. & Coll. Med. Lond. In hoc gaudeo aliquid discere, ut doceam. Seneca.
Manningham, Richard, Sir, 1690-1759.Date: [1754]- Books
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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, from the experience of our English authors, viz. Sir Theodore Mayerne, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpeper, and others of foreign nations : with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter ... touching the practice of the said art ... the whole illustrated with copper plates.
Date: 1698- Books
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The byrth of mankinde, otherwise named, The womans booke / set foorth in English by Thomas Raynalde, phisitian, and by him corrected, and augmented ; whose contents yee may reade in the table following, but most plainely in the prologue.
Raynalde, Thomas, active 1540-1551Date: [1613]- Books
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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 labours. With fit Remedies for the several Indispositions of New-Born Babes. To which is prefix'd an exact description of the parts of generation in women. A Work much more perfect than any now extant, and very necessary for all, especially Midwives and Men practising that Art. The fourth edition corrected, and augmented with several new figures, and with the Description of an excellent Instrument to bring a Child that comes right; All correctly Engraven in Copper. Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. And translated by Hugh Chamberlen, M.D.
Mauriceau, François, 1637-1709.Date: 1710- Books
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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 labours. With fit Remedies for the several Indispositions of New-Born Babes. To which is prefix'd, an exact description of the parts of generation in women. A Work much more perfect than any now extant and very necessary for all, especially Midwives and Men practising that Art. The eighth edition corrected, and augmented with several new figures, and with the Description of an excellent Instrument to bring a Child that comes right; all correctly Engraven in Copper. Written in French by Francis Mauriceau, and translated by Hugh Chamberlen, M.D.
Mauriceau, François, 1637-1709.Date: M.DCC.I.II. [1752]- Books
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Aristotle's compleat and experienc'd midwife. In two parts. I. Guide for child-bearing women, in the Time of their Conception, Bearing and Suckling their Children; with the best Means of Helping them, both in Natural and Unnatural Labours: Together with suitable Remedies for the various Indispositions of New-Born Infants. II. Proper and safe remedies for the curing all those distempers that are incident to the female sex; and more especially those that are any Obstruction to their Bearing of Children. A Work far more perfect than any yet Extant; and highly Necessary for all Surgeons, Midwives, Nurses, and Child-Bearing Women. Made English by W- S-, M.D.
Date: [1760?]- Books
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The trial of a cause between Richard Maddox, Gent. Plaintiff, and Dr. M----y, Defendant, Physician, and Man-Midwife, before Sir Michael Foster, Knt. One of the Justices of the King's-Bench. At Guildhall, London, March 2, 1754. By a Special Jury. in an Action upon the case, brought by the Plaintiff against the Defendant for promising and undertaking, and not performing his Office as a Man-Midwife in the Delivery of the Wife of Mr. Richard Maddox, the Plaintiff. With the Opinions of several Physicians and Man-Midwives upon the Case, as given in Evidence upon the Trial. Whereupon the Jury thought proper to give 1000l. Damage to the Plaintiff. To which will be added. Some extraordinary cases in Midwifry; extracted from the Writings of that very eminent Physician and Man-Midwife, Dr. Deventer, of Leyden.
Maddox, Richard, gent.Date: [1754]- Books
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The ladies' physical directory, Or, a treatise of all the weaknesses, indispositions, and diseases peculiar to the female sex, from eleven years of age to fifty or upwards. By which women and maids of the meanest capacity may perfectly understand the symptoms, nature, and true cause of their own illnesses, and readily know how to manage themselves under all infirmities.
Date: 1736- Books
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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 labours. With fit Remedies for the several Indispositions of New-Born Babes. To which is prefix'd an exact description of the parts of generation in women. A Work much more perfect than any now extant, and very necessary for all, especially Midwives and Men practising that Art. The fourth edition corrected, and augmented with several new figures, and with the Description of an excellent Instrument to bring a Child that comes right; All correctly Engraven in Copper. Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. And translated by Hugh Chamberlen, M.D.
Mauriceau, François, 1637-1709.Date: 1710- Books
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Aristotle's compleat and experienc'd midwife. In two parts. I. A guide for child-bearing women, in the Time of their Conception, Bearing and Suckling their Children; with the best Means of helping them, both in Natural and Unnatural Labours: Together with suitable Remedies for the various Indispositions of Newborn Infants. II. Proper and safe remedies for the curing all those distempers that are incident to the female sex; and more especially those that are any Obstruction to their Bearing of Children. A Work far more perfect than any yet Extant, and highly Necessary for all Surgeons, Midwives, Nurses, and Child-Bearing Women. Made English by W---- S-----, M.D.
Date: [1740?]- Books
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Man-Midwifery dissected; or, the obstetric family-instructor. For the use of married couples, and single adults of both sexes. Containing A Display of the Management of every Class of Labours by Men and Boy-Midwives; also of their cunning, indecent, and cruel Practices. Instructions to Husbands how to counteract them. A Plan for the complete Instruction of Women who counteract promising Talents, in order to supersede Male-Practice. Various Arguments and Quotations, proving, that Man-Midwifery is a personal, a domestic, and a national Evil. In fourteen letters. Addressed To Alex. Hamilton, M.D.F.R.S. &c. Edinburgh. Occasioned by Certain Doctrines Contained In His Letters To Dr. W. Osborn. By John Blunt, A Student Under Different Teachers, But Not A Practitioner Of The Art.
Fores, S. W. (Samuel William).Date: 1793- Books
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A lecture introductory to the theory and practice of midwifery: Including the history, nature and tendency of that science; with a view of its several branches, and the proper means of attaining a perfect knowledge of the whole. Together with animadversions on the qualification and deportment of an accoucheur; publicly delivered the 4th of October, 1773. By John Leake, M.D. member of the Royal College of Physicians, London; and physician to the Westminster Lying-In Hospital.
Leake, John, 1729-1792.Date: [1773]- Books
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Historia partus nanae, versionis negotio a foetu vivo feliciter liberatae. In concessu artis obstetriciae amantium praelecta d. 18. Febr. 1797 / a F.B. Osiander.
Osiander, Friedrich Benjamin, 1759-1822.Date: 1797- Books
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Essays on the practice of midwifery, in natural and difficult labours. By William Osborn, M. D.
Osborn, William, 1736-1808.Date: MDCCXCII. [1792]- Books
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The ladies companion, or, The English midwife : wherein is demonstrated the manner and order how women ought to govern themselves during the whole time of their breeding children and of their difficult labour, hard travail and lying-in, etc. : together with the diseases they are subject to (especially in such times) and the several wayes and means to help them : also the various forms of the childs proceeding forth of the womb, in 17 copper cuts, with a discourse of the parts principally serving for generation / digested into a small volume by William Sermon.
Sermon, William, 1629?-1679Date: 1671- Books
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Aristotle's master-piece compleated. In two parts. The first containing the secrets of generation, in all the parts thereof. Treating Of the Benefit of Marriage, and the prejudice of unequal Matches, signs of Insufficiency in Men or Women: Of the infusion of the Soul: Of the likeness of Children to parents: Of monstrous births. The Cause and Cure of the Green Sickness, a Discourse of Virginity. Directions and Cautions for Midwives. Of the Organs of Generation in Women, and the Fabrick of the Womb. The use and Action of the Genitals. Signs of Conception, and whether a Male or Female; with a word of Advice to both Sexes in the Act of Copulation. And the Pictures of several monstrous Births, &c. The second part being, a private looking-glass for the female-sex. Treating of the various Maladies of the Womb. and all other Distempers incident to Women of all Ages, with proper remedies for the Cure of each. The whole being more Correct than any thing of this kind hitherto Published.
Date: Printed In The Year. MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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A directory for midwives: or, a guide for women, in their conception, bearing, and suckling their children. The first part contains. I. The anatomy of the vessels of generation. II. The Formation of the Child in the Womb. III. What hinders Conception, and its Remedies. IV. What furthers Conception. V. A Guide for Women in Conception. VI. Of Miscarriages in Women. Vii. A Guide for Women in their Labour. Viii. A Guide for Women in their Lying-In. IX. Of nursing children. To cure all diseases in women, read the second part of this book By Nicholas Culpeper, Gent. Student in Physic and Astrology. Newly corrected from many Gross Errors. Newly corrected from many gross errors.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654.Date: M.DCC.LXII. [1762]- Books
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A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying in women, and the means of curing, but more especially of preventing the principal disorders to which they are liable. Together with some new directions concerning the delivery of the child and placenta in natural births Illustrated with cases. by Charles White, Esq. F.R.S. Man midwife to the lying in hospital, in Manchester, in England, &c. &c.
White, Charles, 1728-1813.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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Dissertatio inauguralis medico-obstetricia De extractione placentae quam consensu gratiosae facultatis medicae pro licentia gradum medicinae doctoris rite assequendi eruditorum examini submittit die XXIII. Junii a. MDCCLXXXIII. Carolus Frider. Geiger.
Geiger, Charles Fréderic.Date: 1783