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 ... Written in French / ... Translated by Hugh Chamberlen, M. D.

  • Mauriceau, François, 1637-1709
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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 ... Written in French / ... Translated by Hugh Chamberlen, M. D. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : Andrew Bell, 1697.

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xlvii, 352 pages, folded engr. plates : illustrations ; (8vo)

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The 3d ed. /

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The translation, by the elder Hugh Chamberlen, has been erroneously attributed to his son of the same name
Translation of Des maladies des femmes grosses et accouchées, based upon the first French ed. of 1668. The original edition of the translation, 1673, has title: The accomplisht midwife. "An anatomical treatise of the parts of a woman destin'd to generation" (p. xv-xli) was not included in the 1673 ed
Copy 1 Note: P. xvii-xxxii wanting.

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Wing M1373
ESTC R217397
Wing (CD-ROM, 1996), M1373

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