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A88969 The diseases of women with child, and in child-bed: as also, the best directions how to help them in natural and unnatural labours. : With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. : Illustrated with divers fair figures, newly and very correctly engraven in copper. : A work much more perfect than any yet extant in English: being very necessary for all chirurgeons and midwives that practise this art. / Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. ; Translated, and enlarged with some marginal-notes, by Hugh Chamberlen ... Mauriceau, François, 1637-1709.; Chamberlen, Hugh. 1672 (1672) Wing M1371B; ESTC R202898 249,555 467

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