Aristotle's compleat and experienc'd midwife in two parts : I. Guide for childbearing women ... together with suitable remedies for the various indispositions of new-born infants. II. Proper and safe remedies for the curing all those distempers that are incident to the female sex ... a work ... highly necessary for all surgeons, midwives, nurses, and child-bearing women / made English by W[illiam] S[almon], M.D.

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Aristotle's compleat and experienc'd midwife in two parts : I. Guide for childbearing women ... together with suitable remedies for the various indispositions of new-born infants. II. Proper and safe remedies for the curing all those distempers that are incident to the female sex ... a work ... highly necessary for all surgeons, midwives, nurses, and child-bearing women / made English by W[illiam] S[almon], M.D. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Aristotle's Masterpiece. n 84134241
Compleat and experienc'd midwife

Publication/Creation

Londou [sic] : Printed and sold by the booksellers, [1749?]

Physical description

[ii], iv, 156 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : frontispiece ; (12mo)

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Edition

The 9th ed.

Notes

Date of publication from D'Arcy Power, p. 177
NLM's copy has mutilated plate of fetus in womb (?) bound after p. 44. Plate does not appear in other eds. or in Wellcome Library's copy of 9th ed., and may be a later insertion.
Authorship attributed to William Salmon. Cf. D'Arcy Power, The foundations of med. hist., 1931, p. 171
Copy 1 Note: Bound with: Aristotle. Book of problems. 1749. For another version see Culpeper, N. Culpepper's complete ... midwife. 1718.

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ESTC N16033

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