The Knowing of Woman’s Kind in Childing is a fifteenth-century treatise which deals with women’s healthcare, particularly gynecology and obstetrics. As an adaptation from various sources and influences, The Knowing of Woman’s Kind in Childing is a highly significant and unusual medical text because it is tailored for a female, secular audience. It reflects commonly held medieval ideas about the female body including its cold, moist nature and apparently innate susceptibility to pain. Despite it sometimes revealing cultural assumptions about the female body, the treatise is compiled to offer an intervention in the healthcare of women, directed primarily toward midwives and associated women who could read English.