The diseases of women with child, and in the 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 exact description of the parts of generation in women / written in French by Francis Mauriceau, and translated by Hugh Chamberlen.

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The diseases of women with child, and in the 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 exact description of the parts of generation in women / written in French by Francis Mauriceau, and translated by Hugh Chamberlen. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : T. Cox and J. Clarke, 1736.

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xliv, 373, that is, 375 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves : frontispiece, plates (copper engraved, most folded) ; (8vo )

Edition

7th ed. corrected and augmented with several new figures and with the description of an excellent instrument to bring a child that comes right.

References note

ESTC T132698

Notes

"A work much more perfect than any now extant, and very necessary for all, especially midwives and men practicing that art"
Copy 1 Note: p. xxxix-xliv wanting.
Copy 2 Note: p. 189-198 wanting but prelims. complete.

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