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[Hyppokratous Peri aiōnos tou anthrōpou ek tou peri sarkōn: peri heptamenou, kai peri oktamenou]. = Hippocratis De hominis aetate, ex extremo fine libri De carnibus: De septimestri: item & de octimestri partu. Accessere problemata aliquot ab hac tractatione non ita aliena / Ioanne Lalamantio, apud Heduos Burgundiae medico, interprete & enarratore.
HippocratesDate: M.D. LXXI. [1571]
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Aristoteles Master-piece, or, The secrets of generation displayed in all the parts thereof.
Date: 1684
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De mulierum praegnantium, parturientium, et puerperarum morbis tractatus : tradens veram optimamque methodum adjuvandi mulieres in partu naturali, & medendi culibet partui contra naturam, morbisque infantium recens-natorum; cum accurata descriptione omnium mulieris partium generationi inservientium; adjunctus multis figuris aeri egregie insculptis.
François MauriceauDate: M DCLXXX VIII [1688]
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The byrth of mankynde, newly translated out of Laten into Englysshe. In the which is entreated of all suche thynges the which chaunce to women in theyr labor, and all suche infyrmitees whiche happen vnto the infantes after they be delyuered. And also at the latter ende or in the thyrde or last boke is entreated of the conception of mankynde, and howe manye wayes it may be letted or furtheryd, with diuers other fruytefull thynges, as doth appere in the table before the booke.
Rösslin, Eucharius, -1526. Swangern Frawen und hebammen Rosegarten. EnglishDate: [Anno Domini. M.CCCCC.XL. [1540]]
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Speculum matricis hybernicum, or, The Irish midwives handmaid / catechistically composed by James Wolveridge, M.D. ; with a copious alphabetical index.
Wolveridge, James, -1671Date: 1670
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The birth of mankind or, The woman's book : a bibliographical study / by Sir D'Arcy Power.
D'Arcy PowerDate: 1927
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The birth of man-kinde; othervvise named, The womans booke. Set forth in English by Thomas Raynald physitian, and by him corrected and augmented. The contents are in the table following, but chiefly in the prologue.
Thomas RaynaldeDate: 1634
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Culpeper's directory for midwives: or, A guide for women. The second part : Discovering, 1. The diseases in the privities of women. 2. The diseases of the privie part. 3. The diseases of the womb ... 14. The diseases and symptoms in children.
Nicholas CulpeperDate: 1662
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The accomplisht midwife, treating of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed : As also, the best directions how to help them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. Illustrated with divers fair figures, newly and very correctly engraven in copper. A work much more perfect than any yet extant in English: being very necessary for all teeming-women, as also for all physicians, chirurgeans and midwives that practise this art. Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. Translated, and enlarged with some marginal notes, by Hugh Chamberlen M.D. and Physician in Ordinary to his Majesty.
François MauriceauDate: 1673
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The birth of mankind, otherwise called, The womans book. Or, A guide for vvomen : in their conception. Bearing, and suckling their children. Containing 1. The anatomie of the vessel of generation. 2. The formation of the child in the womb. 3. What hinders conception; and its remedies. 4. What furthers conception. 5. A guide for women in conception. 6. Of miscarriage in women. 7. A guide for women in labour. 8. A guide for women in their lying in. 9. Of nursing of children. Illustrated with figures. Translated into English by Thomas Reynald, doctor of physick.
Eucharius RösslinDate: 1654
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Aristotle's master-piece: or, The secrets of generation displayed in all the parts thereof containing 1. The signs of barrenness. 2. The way of getting a boy or girl. 3. Of the likeness of children to parents. 4. Of the infusion of the soul into the infant. 5. Of monstrous births, and the reasons thereof. 6. Of the benefit of marriage to both sexes. 7. The prejudice of unequal matches. 8. The discovery of insufficiency. 9. The cause and cure of the green-sickness. 10. A discourse of virginity. 11. How a midwife ought to be qualified. 12. Directions and cautions to midwives. 13. Of the organs of generation in women 14. The fabrick of the womb. 15. The use and action of the genitals. 16. Signs of conception, and whether of a male or female. 17. To discover false conception. 18. Instructions for women with child. 19. For preventing miscarriage. 20. For women in child-bed. 21. Of ordering new-born infants, and many other very useful particulars. : To which is added, a word of advice to both sexes in the act of copulation, and the pictures of several monstrous births. : Very necessary for all midwives, nurses, and young married women.
Date: 1702
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Q. D. B. V. Disputatio inauguralis medica, qua rationes embryulciae & lithotomiae, ex decreto gratiosae facultatis medicae, / praeside, D. Rudolpho Jacobo Camerario, medicinae professore ordinario, patrono & praeceptore suo venerando, pro licentia, gradum doctoris in medicina legitimè consequendi, publico eruditorum examini submittit Jacobus Wendelinus Simonius, Tubingensis, ad diem [blank] Martii, hor. loco[que]; sol.
Simonius, Jacobus Wendelinus.Date: Anno MDCCVIII. [1708]
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Speculum matricis; or, the expert midwives handmaid. Catechistically composed by James Wolveridge, M.D. with a copious alphabetical index. Written IV Xta MagnaLIa DeI sCrIptor, anno Domini, 1669. Chronogramma, 1669.
Wolveridge, James, -1671Date: 1671
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A directory for midwives: or, A guide for women : in their conception. Bearing; and suckling their children. The first part contains, 1. The anatomy of the vessels of generation. 2. The formation of the child in the womb. 3. What hinders conception, and its remedies. 4. What furthers conception. 5. A guide for women in conception. 6. Of miscarriage in women. 7. A guide for women in their labor. 8. A guide for women in their lying-in. 9. Of nursing children. To cure all diseases in women, read the second part of this book. By Nicholas Culpeper gent. Student in physick and astrology.
Nicholas CulpeperDate: 1684
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A directory for midwives, or, A guide for women in their conception, bearing, and suckling their children : the first part contains ... to cure all diseases in women, read the second part of this book / by Nicholas Culpepper.
Nicholas CulpeperDate: 1675
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The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed : as also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. To which is prefix'd an Anatomical treatise. All illustrated with divers fair figures, correctly engraven in copper. A work much more perfect than any now extant in English; being and very necessary for all chirurgeons and midwives practising this art. Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. Translated by Hugh Chamberlen, M.D.
François MauriceauDate: 1697
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An essay on the improvement of midwifery : chiefly with regard to the operation ; to which are added fifty cases, selected from upwards of twenty-five years practice / by Edmund Chapman, Surgeon.
Edmund ChapmanDate: 1733
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Aristotle's manual of choice secrets : shewing the whole mystery of generation : with receipts to prevent barrenness, and cause conception : very necessary to be known and practiced by all midwives, nurses, & young married women / translated out of Latin by J.P.
Date: 1699
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The birth of mankynde, otherwyse named the womans booke : Newly set foorth, corrected, and augmented. Whose contentes ye may reade in the table of the booke, and most plainely in the prologue. By Thomas Raynalde physition.
Thomas RaynaldeDate: [1565, i.e. 1572?]
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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 ... with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter ... touching the practice of the said art.
Date: 1663
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A directory for midwives, or, A guide for women : in their [bracket] conception, bearing, and suckling their children ... / by Nich. Culpeper.
Nicholas CulpeperDate: 1656
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The birth of mankinde, otherwyse named The vvomans booke. Set foorth in English by Thomas Raynalde phisition, and by him corrected, and augmented. Whose contents yee may reade in the table folowyng: but most playnely in the prologue.
Thomas RaynaldeDate: [1598]
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Aristotle's master-piece improved. : In four parts. Containing part I. Of marriages, and at what age young men, and virgins are capable of it. Part II. Of monsters, and monstrous births, and the several reasons thereof, with divers examples. Part III. What conception is; and what is pre-requisite thereto. Part IV. Directions for midwives how to assist women in the time of their labour; and how child-bearing women should be ordered in the time of their lying-in Adapted to the meanest capacities, and much more correct than any yet published. With contents to the whole.
Date: [approximately 1731]
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The expert mid-wife : a treatise of the diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also, of the best ways and means of help in natural and unnatural labours. With fit remedies for the various maladies of new born babes. A work more full than any yet extant: and most necessar [sic] for all bearing women, mid-wifes, and others that practise this art. By Mr. James McMath, M.D.
Macmath, James, 1648-1696Date: M. DC. XCIV. [1694]
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The birth of mankynde : otherwyse named the womans booke. Newely set foorth, corrected, and augmented. Whose contentes ye may reade in the table of the booke, and most playnely in the prologue. By Thomas Raynalde phisition.
Thomas RaynaldeDate: 1565