Instruction to midwives

“Instruction pour les sages-femmes et les nourrisses (sic) à laquelle on prie toutes les personnes charitables de s’intéresser”. On the necessity of prompt baptism by the midwife in the cases of danger, and on the care to be taken by nurses against overlaying their charges.

c.1750

14 pp. 8vo. 171/2 x 11 cm. Original paper covers.

Purchased 1930.

From the Berhard VI Collection.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).