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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 Mayern, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpeper ... : with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter ... / by John Pechey ... ; the whole illustrated with copper plates.
  Date of publication:
  1698
  

  Author(s):

  Pechey, John, 1655-1716. ; Chamberlen, Hugh. ; Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654. ; Boursier, Louise Bourgeois, ca. 1563-1636. ; Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de, Sir, 1573-1655.
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  "Rare secrets brought to light, which for many years were locked up in the breast of ... Sir Theodore Mayern ... London, 1696" (p. [291]-326) has special t.p. The author's name appears after the edition statement. Advertisement ...
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  The midwives book, or, The whole art of midwifry discovered. Directing childbearing women how to behave themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children in six books, viz. ... / By Mrs. Jane Sharp practitioner in the art of midwifry above thirty years.
  Date of publication:
  1671
  

  Author(s):

  Sharp, Jane, Mrs.
  Description:
  Publisher's catalog on [4] p. at end. Some errors in pagination. Imperfect: print show-through. Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California. I. An anatomical description of the parts ...
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