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The modern specialty of obstetrics and gynecology did not exists as such in the early modern period. Physicians might deal with women’s reproductive health, but the more common reproductive healer was the midwife.


There are 83 books tagged with this term.
 
Last Name First Name Title Date
Chamberlayne Thomas The compleat midwife’s practice enlarged 1699
Chamberlayne Thomas The compleat midwife’s practice enlarged, in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth… 1698
Chamberlayne Thomas The compleat midwife’s practice enlarged, second edition corrected by R.C. I.D. M.S. T.B… 1659
Chamberlayne Thomas The complete midvvife’s practice enlarged 1680
Chamberlayne Thomas The complete midvvife’s practice enlarged 1680
Fisher John The copy of a letter describing the wonderful woorke of God in deliuering a mayden… 1564
Mauriceau Francois The diseases of vvomen with child, and in child-bed: as also the best means… 1683
Mauriceau Francois The diseases of vvomen with child, and in child-bed: as also, the best directions… 1672
Mauriceau Francois The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also the best means… 1697
Mauriceau Francois The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed; as also the best means… 1696
Bunworth Richard The doctresse: a plain and easie method, of curing those diseases which are peculiar to women 1656
[author not specified] The English midwife enlarged, containing directions to midwives; wherein is laid down whatever is most… 1682
MacMath James The expert mid-wife: a treatise of the diseases of women with child, and in… 1694
Rueff Jakob The expert midwife, or An excellent and most necessary treatise of the generation and birth… 1637
Sermon William The ladies companion, or, The English midwife. Wherein is demonstrated, the manner and order how… 1671
Sowerby Leonard The ladies dispensatory, containing the natures, vertues, and qualities of all herbs, and simples usefull… 1651
Sharp Jane The midwives book. Or the whole art of midwifry discovered. Directing childbearing women how to… 1671
[author not specified] The rationall physitian’s library 1661
Sadler John The sicke vvomans private looking-glasse wherein methodically are handled all uterine affects, or diseases… 1636
[author not specified] The Westminster doctor 1685
Massaria Alessandro The womans counsellour: or, The feminine physitian. Modestly treating of such occult accidents, and secret… 1664
Fonteyn Nicolaas The womans doctour, or, An exact and distinct explanation of all such diseases as are… 1652
Busschof Hermann Two treatises 1676