The midwives book, 1671
Subtitle: Women Writers Project first electronic edition
By: Sharp, Jane
Contributors: Brown University. Women Writers Project
Publisher: Brown University Women Writers Project
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Providence, RI
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Midwifery; History; Midwives; Obstetrics; Women in medicine; Women; Social conditions
Other titles: Midwives book; Whole art of midwifry discovered
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There is one misplaced illustration, bound between pages 150 and 151, which in other copies of this text is bound between pages 152 and 153. It is referenced on p. 155 in a printer's note.

Transcription of original: 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 ... / Mrs. Jane Sharp. 1st ed. London : Simon Miller, 1671.

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Table of contents: title: I. An anatomical description of the parts of men and women; title: II. What is requisite for procreation : signs of a womans being with child, and whether it be male or female, and how the child is formed in the womb; title: III. The causes and hindrances of conception and barrenness and of the paines and difficulties of childbearing with their causes, signes and cures; title: IV. Rules to know when a woman is near her labour, and when she is near conception, and how to order the child when born; title: V. How to order women in childbirth, and of several diseases and cures for women in that condition; title: VI. Of diseases incident to women after conception. Rules for the choice of a nurse; her office; with proper cures for all diseases incident in young children.