The compleat midvvife's practice enlarged. [electronic resource] : In the most weighty and high conc...
The compleat midvvife's practice enlarged. [electronic resource] : 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.
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[London] : Printed for Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Cornhill., 1659.
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Date
1659.
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English
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[16], 309, [11] p., [6] plates : port.
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Publisher
[London] : Printed for Nath. Brooke at the Angel in Cornhill., 1659.
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The second edition corrected, / by R.C. I.D. M.S. T.B. practitioners of the said art. With a full supply of those rare secrets which Mr. Culpeper in his brief treatise of midwifry, and other English writers, have kept close to themselves, concealed, or wholly omitted.
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Full supply of such most useful and admirable secrets.
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England
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1659.
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The compleat midvvife's practice enlarged. [electronic resource] : 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 practic...
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Full supply of such most useful and admirable secrets.
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Attributed to Thomas Chamberlayne.
An expanded edition of "The compleat midwifes practice" (Wing C1817C), originally published in 1656 and attributed to Thomas Chamberlayne.
With engraved frontispiece depicting Louise Bourgeois Boursier, midwife to the Queen of France.
Frontis. = plate.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library....
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Wing (2nd ed., 1994) C1817D.
Thomason E.1723[1]
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Also available in microfilm held offsite at RAV/FM4/117.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Thomason Tracts ; 214:E1723[1])
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74VvvXK5JpN3
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