1st Edition
Writings on Medicine Printed Writings 1641–1700: Series II, Part One, Volume 4
By Lisa Forman Cody
Copyright 2002
640 Pages
by
Routledge
640 Pages
by
Routledge
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The four works in this volume are the only known exclusively medical texts written by women during the Restoration. Their importance is denoted by their dramatic challenge to the generalisations once made about medical practice and female healers in this period. Jane Sharp's The Midwives Book was the first and only midwifery manual to be printed in English before 1700, and continued to be... Read more
Contents: Introductory Note; The midwives book. Or the whole Art of Midwifry discovered, Jane Sharp; To Dr.-an answer to his queries, concerning the colledg of Midwives 'A scheme for the foundation of a royal Hospital'; Elizabeth Cellier; Medicatrix, or the woman-physician, Mary Trye; Appendix: The mid-wives just petition: or, a complaint of the divers good gentlewomen of that faculty.
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Lisa Forman Cody
