A Midwife's Tale:
The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812

by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

ISBN 0679733760 / 9780679733768 / 0-679-73376-0
Publisher Random House Inc
Language English
Edition Softcover
List price $15.95
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Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier. [via]