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(Boursier, Louise Bourgeois, ca. 1563-1636)

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Boursier, Louise Bourgeois, ca. 1563-1636: The compleat midwife's practice enlarged in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man containing a perfect directory or rules for midwives and nurses : as also a guide for women in their conception, bearing and nursing of children from the experience of our English authors, viz., Sir Theodore Mayern, Dr. Chamberlain, Mr. Nich. Culpeper ... : with instructions of the Queen of France's midwife to her daughter ... / by John Pechey ... ; the whole illustrated with copper plates. (London : Printed for H. Rhodes ... J. Philips ... J. Taylor ... and K. Bentley ..., 1698), also by John Pechey, Hugh Chamberlen, Nicholas Culpeper, and Théodore Turquet de Mayerne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Boursier, Louise Bourgeois, ca. 1563-1636: The compleat midwifes practice, in the most weighty and high concernments of the birth of man. Containing perfect rules for midwifes and nurses, as also for women in their conception, bearing, and nursing of children: from the experience not onely of our English, but also the most accomplisht and absolute practicers among the French, Spanish, Italian, and other nations. A work so plain, that the weakest capacity may easily attain the knowledge of the whole art. With instructions of the midwife to the Queen of France (given to her daughter a little before her death) touching the practice of the said art. / Published with the approbation and good liking of sundry the most knowing professors of midwifery now living in the city of London, and other places. Illustrated with severall cuts in brass. By T.C. I.D. M.S. T.B. practitioners. (London, : Printed for Nathaniel Brooke at the Angell in Cornhill., 1656), also by Thomas Chamberlayne (HTML at EEBO TCP)
Boursier, Louise Bourgeois, ca. 1563-1636: Instruction familiere et utile aux sages-femmes pour bien pratiquer les accouchemens : faite par demandes & réponses (Laurent d'Houry, 1710), also by Marguerite Du Tertre de La Marche (page images at HathiTrust)

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