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Midwifery manuals were usually addressed to the midwife and to her patients — all married women. They described conception, pregnancy, labor and delivery, as well as care of the newborn.


There are 75 books tagged with this term.
 
Last Name First Name Title Date
Culpeper Nicholas A directory for midwives 1671
Sharp Jane The midwives book. Or the whole art of midwifry discovered. Directing childbearing women how to… 1671
Wolveridge James Speculum matricis hybernicum; or, The Irish midwives handmaid. Catechistically composed by James Wolveridge, M.D. With… 1670
Culpeper Nicholas A directory for mid-wives 1668
Chamberlen Peter Dr. Chamberlain’s midwifes practice: or, a guide for women in that high concern of conception… 1665
Massaria Alessandro The womans counsellour: or, The feminine physitian. Modestly treating of such occult accidents, and secret… 1664
Wolveridge James Speculum matricis hybernicum, or, The Irish midwives handmaid catechistically composed by James Wolveridge, M.D. ; with… 1664
Chamberlayne Thomas The compleat midvvife’s practice enlarged, in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth… 1663
Culpeper Nicholas Culpeper’s Directory for midwives...The second part 1662
Culpeper Nicholas A directory for midwives 1660
Massaria Alessandro De morbis fœmineis, The womans counsellour: or, The feminine physitian, enlarged. Modestly treating of such… 1659
Chamberlayne Thomas The compleat midvvife’s practice enlarged 1659
Chamberlayne Thomas The compleat midwife’s practice enlarged, second edition corrected by R.C. I.D. M.S. T.B… 1659
Chamberlayne Thomas A full supply of such most useful and admirable secrets, which Mr. Nicholas Culpeper, in… 1659
Massaria Alessandro De morbis fœmineis, the womans counsellour: or, The feminine physitian. Modestly treating of such occult… 1657
Culpeper Nicholas A directory for midwives 1656
Chamberlayne Thomas The compleat midwifes practice, in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of… 1656
[author not specified] The compleat doctoress... all diseases insident to women 1656
Bunworth Richard The doctresse: a plain and easie method, of curing those diseases which are peculiar to women 1656
Roeslin Eucharius The birth of mankind. "Fourth" edition.may be a ghost… 1654
Rosslin Eucharius The birth of mankind, otherwise called, The womans book. Or, A guide for vvomen, in… 1654
M. A. A rich closet of physical secrets, collected together by the elaborate paines of four severall… 1653
Culpeper Nicholas A directory for midwives 1653
M. A. A rich closet of physical secrets collected by the elaborate pains of four several students… 1653
Culpeper Nicholas A directory for midwives 1652
Culpeper Nicholas A directory for midwives: or A guid for women, in their conception, bearing, and suckling… 1652
M. A. A rich closet of physical secrets, collected by the elaborate paines of four severall students… 1652
Culpeper Nicholas A directory for midvvives: or, A guide for women, in their conception, bearing, and suckling… 1651
Culpeper Nicholas Culpeper’s Directory for midwives...The second part 1650
Rueff Jakob The expert midwife, or An excellent and most necessary treatise of the generation and birth… 1637