COLD AND WET, HOT AND DRY: THE KNOWING OF WOMAN’S KIND IN CHILDING, A FOURTEENTH CENTURY VERNACULAR OBSTETRICAL AND GYNECOLOGICAL TREATISE

COLD AND WET, HOT AND DRY: THE KNOWING OF WOMAN’S KIND IN CHILDING, A FOURTEENTH CENTURY VERNACULAR OBSTETRICAL AND GYNECOLOGICAL TREATISE

This thesis presents a single witness edition of The Knowing of Woman’s Kind in Childing, which is a 14th century vernacular obstetrical and gynaecological treatise found in British Library MS Additional 12195. Purported to be emulating medical texts of French and Latin origin, The Knowing of Woman&...

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Other Authors: Liu, Yin
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
medieval medicine
medieval obstetrics
medieval gynecology
medieval medical recipes
childbirth
suffocation
retention
Trotula
Non omnes quidem
De viribus herbarum
herbs
Hindu-Arabic numbers
alchemy
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2013-09-1236

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http://hdl.handle.net/10388/ETD-2013-09-1236

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