Eighteenth-Century British Midwifery, Part I vol 1, Lieske 9781138752733 New..

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Gives readers an understanding of midwives, midwifery students, and women in labour > Gives readers an understanding of midwives, midwifery students, and women in labour. This twelve-volume collection comprises pamphlets, treatises, lectures for midwifery students, texts on the establishment of lying-in hospitals, and catalogues of obstetrical apparatuses collected by male-midwives. > Volume 1 Popular Culture and Medicine Nicholas Culpeper, A Directory for Midwives (1651) Robert Barret, A Companion for Midwives, Child-Bearing Women, and Nurses (1699) A. M., A Rich Closet of Physical Secrets (1652) Some Observations Made upon the Maldiva Nut (1694) J. P., The Fruitful Wonder (1674) \u2018To Ladies and All Others of the Female Sex\u2019 Announcement of the Birth of Monsters Advertisement selling Medicine to Cure Barrenness Advertisement by Stephen Draper The Cruel Midwife (1693) The Man-Midwife Unmasqu\u2019d (1734) Midwifery and the Law At the Council-Chamber in Whitehall (1688))