MPIWG
BOOK

A directory for midwives

Full Title

Full Title
A directory for midwives: or, a guide for women, in their conception. Bearing, and suckling their children. Containing 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 farthers conception. 5. A guide for women in conception. 6. Of miscarriage in women. 7. A guide for women in their labor. 8. A guide for women in their lying-in. 9. Of nursing children. See the directions in the epistle to the reader. Now are added, five brass figures, and explanations of them, at page 54. never printed before. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. Student in Physick and astrology.

Author

Culpeper, Nicholas

Last Name

Last Name
Culpeper

First Name

First Name
Nicholas

Date

Date
1660

Publication City

Publication City

Imprint

Imprint
London : printed by Peter Cole, and Edward Cole printers and book-sellers, at the Printing-press in Cornhil, neer the Royal Exchange, 1660.

Topic

Genre

midwifery manual

ESTC

http://estc.bl.uk/R171644

Format

Format
8

Printer

Printer Place

Pages

Pages
190

ID

ID
R171644