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One of the mysteries of Nicholas Culpeper’s life is his great devotion to midwifery and childbirth and his obsession to describe sex organs. It is surprising that Culpeper’s first own medical text two years after the translation of the London Dispensatory was not about herbal medicine, but about midwifery (obstetrics) and child care (pediatrics).
Accuse not nature, she has done her part, Do thou but thine.
John Milton, 1608–1674
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Thulesius, O. (1992). Midwifery, 1651. In: Nicholas Culpeper. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230371538_9
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