A directory for midvvives: 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 furthers 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 epistle to the reader, to this edition. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. Student in physick and astrologie.

All titles

• A directory for midvvives: 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 furthers 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 epistle to the reader, to this edition. By Nich. Culpeper, Gent. Student in physick and astrologie.
• Directory for midwives: or, a guide for women

People / Organizations

• Nicholas Culpeper (Author)

Imprint

London: printed by Peter Cole in leaden-Hall, and are to be sold at his shop, at the Printing-Press in Cornhil, neer the Royal Exchange: and R[ichard]. Westbrook at Deaths Arm, in Thredneedle-street, against the upper end of Broad-street, 1653.

Publication year

1653-1653

ESTC No.

R171642

Grub Street ID

65801

Description

[14], 220, [4] p., [1] plate (folded) : ill. (port.) ; 8⁰

Note

Frontis = port.

Signatures: A-L? M?.

The words 'conception ... children.' are connected by a bracket.

The folded leaf is between signatures E3 and E4.