The Midwives Book: Or the Whole Art of Midwifry DiscoveredOxford University Press, 19.08.1999 - 368 Seiten When the midwife Jane Sharp wrote The Midwives Book in 1671, she became the first British woman to publish a midwifery manual. Drawing on works by her male contemporaries and weaving together medical information and lively anecdotes, she produces a book that is instructive, accessible, witty, and constantly surprising. |
Inhalt
THE MIDWIVES BOOK OR THE WHOLE ART OF MIDWIFRY | 1 |
Medical Glossary 305 | 28 |
The Figure Explained Being a Dissection | 116 |
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The Midwives Book, Or, The Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered Mrs. Jane Sharp Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1999 |
The Midwives Book, Or, The Whole Art of Midwifry Discovered Jane Sharp,Elaine Hobby Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 1999 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Agrimony Allantois anoint belly birth bladder blood body boil brain breasts breed Cammomile cause CHAP child Clitoris cold comes conceived conception Copulation corrupt costive cure decoction diarrhea diet Directory disease distemper doth dram drink Electuary emended Feaver fleshy Galen give grow half a dram half an ounce hard hath heart heat Hippocrates hollow Humoral Theory ill humours infant labia minora lieth ligaments Liver maids Mastick Matrix meats Medical medicine membrane menstrual midwifery Midwives Midwives Book milk moist Mother Mugwort Muscles natural Navel Navel-string neck Nicholas Culpeper Note on Humoral Nurse ointment ounce pain passage Peritoneum Pessaries Physicians Plantane powder Practical Physick purge remedies roots Roses saith scruple seed Sharp echoes Culpeper Sharp echoes Sennert sirrup skin sometimes spirits stomach stones stopt Succory suck superfetation swell things Ulcers Urine Vessels watry wine woman womb women worms Yard
Beliebte Passagen
Seite xvii - Popular theories of generation: the evolution of Aristotle's works. The study of an anachronism', in J. Woodward and D. Richards (eds), Health Care and Popular Medicine in Nineteenth Century England...