Texts

• Louise Bourgeois
  • Observations by the Queen’s midwife on births she presided (1609-1617-1626) (1609)
• Jacques Bury
  • The Experiences of a Surgeon Skilled in Difficult Deliveries (1623) (1623)
• Guillaume Chrestian
  • The Queen’s physician explains the processes of conception and birth (1553) (1553)
• Jacques Daleschamps
  • Difficult births described by a famous French physician, botanist and translator (1610 re-edition) (1610)
• André Du Laurens
  • The first physician to the King gives his opinion on some remarkable cases (1613) (1613)
• Jacques Duval
  • A Physician in Rouen discusses Death in Childbirth and the Birth of Hermaphrodites (1612) (1612)
• Théophile Gelée
  • A Doctor from Dieppe Relates an Aborted Birth and Successful Caesarean Operation (1622) (1622)
• Jacques Guillemeau
  • The King’s Surgeon looks back over a career including normal and exceptional childbirths (1609) (1609)
• Laurent Joubert
  • The Chancellor of the Faculty of Medicine at Montpellier gives his opinion on popular errors about conception, pregnancy and childbirth (1578) (1578)
• Levin Lemne
  • Three Strange Stories translated from the Works of a Dutch Physician (1566) (1566)
• Jean Liebault
  • The author of several medical compilations records a number of remarkable births (1582) (1582)
• Ambroise Paré
  • The surgeon Ambroise Paré advises on difficult deliveries (1549) (1549)
  • The Royal Surgeon, Paré, outlines human conception (1573) (1573)
  • The Royal Surgeon, Paré, compiles a catalogue of monsters (1573) (1573)
• Simon de Provanchières
  • A provincial doctor relates an aborted and monstrously delayed birth (1582) (1582)
• Jean Riolan
  • A famous anatomist recounts the uncovering of several exceptional pregnancies (1629) (1629)
• François Rousset
  • A physician defends the use of caesarean operations on living women (1581) (1581)
• Louis de Serres
  • Sterility and Phantom Pregnancies (1625) (1625)