Guide to the profession of the midwife by Jane Sharp

Writings on medicine / selected and introduced by Lisa Forman Cody ; general editors, Betty S. Travitsky and Patrick Cullen.

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.

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The Midwives Book

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Writings on medicine / selected and introduced by Lisa Forman Cody ; general editors, Betty S. Travitsky and Patrick Cullen.

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.