The Compleat midwife'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 ... with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter .. touching the practice of the said art ...

Format:

Microformat

Contributor:

Boursier, Louise Bourgeois, approximately 1563-1636.

Mayerne, Théodore Turquet de, Sir, 1573-1655.

Series:

Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1546:7.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Obstetrics--Early works to 1800.

Obstetrics.

Midwives--Early works to 1800.

Midwives.

Gynecology--Early works to 1800.

Gynecology.

Physical Description:

321 pages, 6 leaves of plates : illustrations

35 mm

monochrome

service copy

positive

Edition:

The third edition enlarged with the addition of Sir Theodore Mayern's rare secrets in midwifery, with the approbation of sundry of the most knowing professors of midwifery now living in the city of London and other places...

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed for Nath. Brook ..., 1663.

Notes:

Contains frontispiece portrait with caption: The expert and famous Madam Louys Bourgeois, midwife to the Queene of France.

Imperfect: pages stained, with print show-through and loss of print.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 1984. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (Early English books, 1641-1700 : 1546:7)

Cited in:

Wing C99

OCLC:

13131675