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The midwives book, or, The whole art of midwifry discovered / Jane Sharp ; edited by Elaine Hobby.

The birth of mankind : otherwise named, The woman's book : newly set forth, corrected, and augmented : whose contents ye may read in the table of the book, and most plainly in the prologue / [Eucharius Rösslin] ; [revised and augmented] by Thomas Reynalde, physician, 1560 ; edited by Elaine Hobby.

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The midwives book, or, The whole art of midwifry discovered / Jane Sharp ; edited by Elaine Hobby.

The birth of mankind : otherwise named, The woman's book : newly set forth, corrected, and augmented : whose contents ye may read in the table of the book, and most plainly in the prologue / [Eucharius Rösslin] ; [revised and augmented] by Thomas Reynalde, physician, 1560 ; edited by Elaine Hobby.