165 results filtered with: Obstetrics - Early works to 1800
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An appendix to the second edition of Mr. C. White's treatise on the management of pregnant and lying-in women.
White, Charles, 1728-1813.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- Books
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Aristotle's compleat master-piece. In three parts. Displaying the secrets of nature in the generation of man. ... To which is added, a treasure of health; or, the family physician: ...
Date: 1733- Books
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A companion for midwives, child-bearing women, and nurses : directing them how to perform their respective offices : together with an essay, endeavouring to shew the influence of moral abuses upon the health of children / by Robert Barret.
Barret, Robert, Brother of Surgeons HallDate: 1699- Books
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Aristotle's master-piece improved. In four parts. Containing Part I. Of marriages, ... Part IV. Directions for midwives how to assist women in time of their labour; ...
Date: [1766?]- Books
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Artis obstetricariæ compendium Tam theoriam quam praxin spectans: Morborum omnium qui Foeminis inter gestandum in Utero, & in Puerperio, nec non Infantibus supervenire solent curationem totam complectens. Huc accedunt morborum omnium, quibus Corpus humanum est obnoxium naturam investigandi methodus vera & accuratissima, illorum curationem efficacissimam indigitans: Et observationes nonnullæ ad praxin generalem medicinæ attinentes: in usum medicinæ tyronum auctore Richardo Manningham, Equite, M. D. R. S. S. et Coll. Med. Lond.
Manningham, Richard, Sir, 1690-1759.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]- Books
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The complete midvvife's practice enlarged : in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man. Containing a perfect directory, or rules for midwives and nurses. As also a guide for women in their conception, bearing and nursing of children: from the experience of our English viz. Sir Theodore Mayern, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich Culpeper. and others of forreign nations. With instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter, a little before her death, touching the practice of the said art. The fourth edition enlarged, with the addition of Sir Theodore Mayerns rare secrets in midwifry, with the approbation of sundry the most knowing professors of midwifry now living in the city of London, and other places, viz. R.C. J.D. M.S. T.B.W.C.M.H. practitioners of the said art. With a further discovery of those secrets kept close in the breast of Mr. Nich. Culpeper, and other English writers; never made publick till now. A work so plain, that the weakest capacity may easily attain the knowledge of the whole art. Illu.
Chamberlayne, ThomasDate: 1680- Books
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Aristotle's compleat and experienc'd midwife. In two parts. I. Guide for child-bearing women, in the Time of their Conception, Bearing and Suckling their Children; with the best Means of Helping them, both in Natural and Unnatural Labours: Together with suitable Remedies for the various Indispositions of New-Born Infants. II. Proper and safe remedies for the curing all those distempers that are incident to the female sex; and more especially those that are any Obstruction to their Bearing of Children. A Work far more perfect than any yet Extant; and highly Necessary for all Surgeons, Midwives, Nurses, and Child-Bearing Women. Made English by W-- S-, M.D.
Date: [1760?]- Books
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A treatise on the improvement of midwifery, chiefly with regard to the operation. To which are added, fifty-seven cases, Selected from upwards of Twenty-Seven Years Practice. The third edition, with large additions and improvements. Imbellished with copper-plates. By Edmund Chapman, surgeon.
Chapman, Edmund, 1680?-1756.Date: M.DCC.LIII. [1753]- Books
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An inquiry into the nature and cause of that swelling, in one or both of the lower extremities, which sometimes happens to lying-in women. Together with an examination into the propriety of drawing the breasts, Of those who do, and also of those who do not give Suck. By Charles White, Esq. F. R. S. Man-Midwife Extraordinary, to the Lying-in Hospital in Manchester, &c. &c.
White, Charles, 1728-1813.Date: 1792- Books
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A directory for midwives: or, A guide for women : in their conception, bearing, and suckling their children. The first part contains, 1. The anatomy of the vessels of generation. 2. The formation of the child in the womb. 3. What hinders conception, and its remedies. 4. What furthers conception. 5. A guide for women in conception. 6. Of miscarriage in women. 7. A guide for women in their labour. 8. A guide for women in their lying-in. 9. Of nursing children. To cure all diseases in women, read the second part of this book. By Nicholas Culpeper, Gent. student in physic and astrology.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1700- Books
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The birth of mankynde, otherwyse named the womans booke : Newly set foorth, corrected, and augmented. Whose contentes ye may reade in the table of the booke, and most plainely in the prologue. By Thomas Raynalde phisition.
Raynalde, Thomas, active 1540-1551Date: [1585?]- Books
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Aristotle's works compleated. In four parts. Containing, I. The compleat master-piece: Displaying the Secrets of Nature in the Generation of Man. II. His compleat and experienced midwife: Being a Guide for Child-Bearing Women. III. His book of problems: Wherein is contained divers Questions and Answers touching the State of Man's Body. IV. His last legacy: Unfolding the Mysteries of Nature in the Generation of Man.
Date: [1741?]- Books
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The birth of mankinde, otherwise named The womans booke. Set foorth in English by Thomas Raynalde phisition, and by him corrected, and augmented. Whose contents yée may reade in the table following: but most plainely in the prologue.
Raynalde, Thomas, active 1540-1551Date: [1604]- Books
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An account of the Westminster New Lying-in Hospital, begun and finished under the patronage of the Right Honorable Earl Percy, president. ...
Westminster Lying-in Hospital.Date: 1767?]- Books
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A treatise on the improvement of midwifery, chiefly with regard to the operation. To which are added fifty-seven cases, selected from upwards of twenty-seven years practice. The second edition, with large additions and improvements. By Edmund Chapman, Surgeon.
Chapman, Edmund, 1680?-1756.Date: 1735- Books
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A treatise on all the diseases incident to women. By John Astruc, Physician to his present Majesty the King of France, Augustus II. late King of Poland, to his Highness the present Duke of Orleans, Regius Professor at Paris, and author of a treatise on the venereal disease. Translated from a manuscript copy of the author's lectures read at Paris, 1740. By J. R-n, M.D.
Astruc, Jean, 1684-1766.Date: MDCCXLIII. [1743]- Books
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A new and general system of midwifery, in four parts. By Brudenell Exton, M.D. Physician and Man Midwife to the Middlesex Hospital.
Exton, Brudenell.Date: MDCCLXXI. [1771]- Books
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The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And The many Errors in all the Books hitherto written upon this Subject clearly refuted. Illustrated with 38 cuts curiously Engraven on Copper Plates, representing in their due Proportion, the several Positions of a Foetus. Also A New Method, demonstrating, How Infants ill situated in the Womb, whether obliquely, or in a strait Posture, may, by the Hand only, without the Use of any Instrument, be turned into their right Position, without hazarding the Life either of Mother or Child. Written in Latin by Henry à Daventer. Made English. To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work by an eminent physician.
Deventer, Hendrik van, 1651-1724.Date: MDCCXXIII. [1723]- Books
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Child-birth or, The happy delivery of vvomen : VVherein is set downe the government of women. In the time of their breeding childe: of their travaile, both naturall and contrary to nature: and of their lying in. Together with the diseases, which happen to vvomen in those times, and the meanes to helpe them. With a treatise for the nursing of children. To which is added, a treatise of the diseases of infants, and young children: with the cure of them, and also of the small pox. Written in French by Iames Guillimeau the French Kings chirurgion.
Guillemeau, Jacques, 1550?-1613Date: 1635- Books
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A new and general system of midwifery. In four parts. By Brudenell Exton, M. D. Physician and Man Midwife to the Middlesex Hospital.
Exton, Brudenell.Date: MDCCLXVI. [1766]- Books
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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 chirurgeons and midwives that practise this art. / Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. ; Translated, and enlarged with some marginal-notes, by Hugh Chamberlen.
Mauriceau, François, 1637-1709Date: 1672- Books
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An introduction to the practice of midwifery. By Thomas Denman, M. D. Licentiate in midwifery of the College of Physicians. ...
Denman, Thomas, 1733-1815.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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Aristotle's complete and experienced midwife. In two parts: I. A Guide for Child-Bearing Women, in the Time of their Conception, Bearing, and Suckling their Children; with the best Means of Helping them, both in Natural and Unnatural Labours: Together with suitable Remedies for the various Indispositions of New-Born Infants. II. Proper and safe Remedies for the Curing all those Distempers that are incident to the Female Sex; and more especially those that are any Obstruction to their bearing of Children. A Work far more perfect than any yet Extant; And highly Necessary for all Surgeons, Midwives, Nurses, and Child-Bearing Women. Made English by W- S-, M.D.
Date: 1782- Books
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The present state of midwifery in Paris. With a theory of the cause and mechanism of labour. By A. Tolver, Man-Midwife.
Tolver, A.Date: [1770]- Books
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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 sit Remedies for the several Indispositions of New-Born Babes. To which is prefix'd an exact description of the parts of generation in women. A Work much more perfect than any now extant, and very necessary for all, especially Midwives and Men practising that Art. The fifth edition corrected, and augmented with several ne figures, and with the Description of an excellent Instrument to bring a Child that comes right; All correctly Engraven in Copper. Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. And translated by Hugh Chamberlen, M.D.
Mauriceau, François, 1637-1709.Date: 1716