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.

  • Mauriceau, François, 1637-1709
Date:
1673
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Also known as

Traité des maladies des femmes grosses. English

Publication/Creation

London : printed by J. Darby, to be sold by Benjamin Billingsley at the Printing-Press in Cornhil, near the Royal Exchange, 1673.

Physical description

22 unnumbered pages, 224, 223-239, 238-437 pages, 7 unnumbered pages, 21 unnumbered leaves of plates, folding : illustrations

Notes

A translation of: Traité des maladies des femmes grosses.
Text is continuous despite pagination.
With an index.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.

References note

Wing M1371A

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI, 1999- (Early English books online) Digital version of: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1918:13) s1999 miun s

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