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A31042 A companion for midwives, child-bearing women, and nurses directing them how to perform their respective offices : together with an essay, endeavouring to shew the influence of moral abuses upon the health of children / by Robert Barret ... Barret, Robert, Brother of Surgeons Hall. 1699 (1699) Wing B913; ESTC R14416 49,115 144

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