The Midwives Book Or the Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered,9780195086522

The Midwives Book Or the Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered

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ISBN13: 9780195086522
ISBN10: 019508652X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-08-19
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

When the midwife Jane Sharp wrote The Midwives Book in 1671, she becamethe first British woman to publish a midwifery manual. Drawing on works by hermale contemporaries and weaving together medical information and livelyantecdotes, she produces a book that is instructive, accessible, witty, andconstantly surprising.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii(2)
Acknowledgments ix(2)
Introduction xi(22)
Note on Humoral Theory xxxiii(1)
Selected Bibliography xxxiv(3)
Note on the Text xxxvii
THE MIDWIVES BOOK. OR THE WHOLE ART OF MIDWIFRY DISCOVERED
1(304)
Medical Glossary 305
Illustrations: The Figure Explained: Being a Dissection of the Womb
120
The Picture of all sorts of postures of Children
154

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