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The expert midwife, or An excellent and most necessary treatise of the generation and birth of man. : Wherein is contained many very notable and necessary particulars requisite to be knovvne and practised: with divers apt and usefull figures appropriated to this worke. Also the causes, signes, and various cures, of the most principall maladies and infirmities incident to women

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: 1637.
Call number: 648880
Creator: Rüff, Jakob (1500-1558)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of The Longo Family Trust, Lawrence D. and Betty Jeanne Longo, Trustees, 2015.
Dimensions: 19 cm (4to)
Associated people: Griffin, Edward, (-1652,); Alchorne, Thomas, (-1642?,); Longo, Lawrence D.,; Longo, Betty Jeanne,
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