The midwives book, or, The whole art of midwifry discovered.
Subtitle: Directing childbearing women how to behave themselves in their conception, breeding, bearing, and nursing of children in six books, viz. ...
By: By Mrs. Jane Sharp practitioner in the art of midwifry above thirty years
Series: Early English books, 1641-1700 -- 2273:4
Publisher: Printed for Simon Miller, at the Star at the West End of St. Pauls
Published: 1671
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Midwifery -- England -- History; Midwives -- England -- History; Obstetrics -- England -- History; Women in medicine -- England -- History; Women -- England -- Social conditions
Other titles: Whole art of midwifry discovered
Work titles: Midwives book
Notes: Publisher's catalog on [4] p. at end

Some errors in pagination

Imperfect: print show-through

Reproduction of original in: Henry E. Huntington Library, San Marino, California

Wing (2nd ed.) S2969B

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1995. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English Books, 1641-1700 ; 2273:4).
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