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Childbirth - Early works to 1800
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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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Some observations made upon the maldiva nut : shewing its admirable virtue in giving an easie, safe, and speedy delivery to women in child-bed / written by a physitian in the countrey to Dr. Hinton at London, 1663.
Physitian in the countrey.Date: 1694- Books
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Newes from New-England: of a most strange and prodigious birth, brought to Boston in New-England, October the 17 : being a true and exact relation, brought over April 19. 1642. by a Gentleman of good worth, now resident in London. Also other relations of six strange and prodigious births in these countries following. The 1. from New-England. The 2 from Quieres. The 3d. in Ravena. The 4. in Paris. The 5. in St. Andwes-church in Paris. The 6. in the forrest Biera.
Gentleman of good worth now resident in LondonDate: [1642]
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Aristotle's works compleated. In four parts. : Containing, I. The compleat master-piece: displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man. II. His compleat and experienced midwife: being a guide for child-bearing women. III. His book of problems: wherein is contain'd divers questions and answers touching the state of man's body. IV. His last legacy: unfolding the mysteries of nature in the generation of man.
Aristotle, pseud.Date: [1751]- Books
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The fruitful wonder: or, A strange relation from Kingston upon Thames : Of a woman, who on Thursday and Friday, being the 5th. and 6th. days of this instant March, 1673/4. VVas delivered of four children at one birth, viz. three sons and one daughter, all born alive, lusty children, and perfect in every part; which lived 24 hours, and then dyed all much about the same time. VVith several other examples of numerous births from credible historians. VVith the physical and astrological reasons for the same. Published by J. P. student in physick.
J. PDate: 1674