The Midwives Book: Or the Whole Art of Midwifry DiscoveredOxford University Press, 19 août 1999 - 368 pages 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. |
Table des matières
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 Jane Sharp,Elaine Hobby Aucun aperçu disponible - 1999 |
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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
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Page 118 - I will give thanks unto thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made : marvellous are thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well. My bones are not hid from thee, though I be made secretly, and fashioned beneath in the earth.
Page 11 - And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive?
Page 12 - It is not hard words that perform the work, as if none understood the art that cannot understand Greek. Words are but the shell that we ofttimes break our teeth with them to come at the kernel — I mean our brains to know what is the meaning of them ; but to have the same in our mother tongue would save us a great deal of needless labour.
Page 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...
Page 131 - And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out : and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee : therefore his name was called Pharez. 30 And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand : and his name was called Zarah.
Page 12 - ... perpetual honour of the female sex. There being not so much as one word concerning men-midwives mentioned there that we can find, it being the natural propriety of women to be much seeing into that art: and though nature be not alone sufficient to the perfection of it, yet farther knowledge may be gained by a long and diligent practice, and be communicated to others of our own sex.
Page 32 - Man in the act of procreation is the agent and tiller and sower of the Ground, Woman is the Patient or Ground to be tilled, who brings Seed also as well as the Man to sow the ground with.
Page 23 - ... two whole kernels like the kernels of a woman's paps, their figure is Oval, and therefore some call them Eggs . . . they feel exquisitely [ie, their power of feeling is exquisite] . . . those that have the hottest stones are most prone to venery . . . The Yard is as it were the Plow wherewith the ground is tilled, and made fit for production...
Page 301 - The Life and Death of the Valiant and Renowned Sir Francis Drake, His Voyages and Discoveries in the West Indies and about the World with His Noble and Heroic Acts.
Page 94 - Cattell ; and when night came they resorted ten or twelve, both men and women into one Cottage together, using hayrie skinnes in stead of beds, and each man choosing his Leman which hee had most fancie unto.
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