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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. 
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