LEADER 00000nam 2200397Ia 4500 001 ocm43077615e 003 OCoLC 005 19991222094858.0 006 m g d 007 cr bn |||a|bb| 008 991222s1671 enkaf s 00| | eng d 040 EAE|cEAE|edcrb|dWaOLN 049 UMIA 100 1 Sharp, Jane,|cMrs. 240 10 Midwives book 245 14 The midwives book, or, The whole art of midwifry discovered. :|bDirecting childbearing women how to behave themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children in six books, viz. ... /|cBy Mrs. Jane Sharp practitioner in the art of midwifry above thirty years. 246 30 Whole art of midwifry discovered 260 London, :|bPrinted for Simon Miller, at the Star at the West End of St. Pauls,|c1671. 300 [12], 418, [4] p., [2] leaves of plates (folded) :|bill. 500 Publisher's catalog on [4] p. at end. 500 Some errors in pagination. 500 Imperfect: print show-through. 500 Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California. 505 0 I. An anatomical description of the parts of men and women. -- II. What is requisite for procreation : signs of a womans being with child, and whether it be male or female, and how the child is formed in the womb. -- III. The causes and hindrances of conception and barrenness and of the paines and difficulties of childbearing with their causes, signes and cures. -- IV. Rules to know when a woman is near her labour, and when she is near conception, and how to order the child when born. -- V. How to order women in childbirth, and of several diseases and cures for women in that condition. -- VI. Of diseases incident to women after conception. Rules for the choice of a nurse; her office; with proper cures for all diseases incident in young children. 650 0 Midwifery|zEngland|xHistory. 650 0 Midwives|zEngland|xHistory. 650 0 Obstetrics|zEngland|xHistory. 650 0 Women in medicine|zEngland|xHistory. 650 0 Women|zEngland|xSocial conditions. 830 0 Early English books online. 856 40 |uhttp://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003& res_id=xri:eebo&rft_val_fmt=&rft_id=xri:eebo:image:151707 936 EEBO-WING