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The Philadelphia Practice of Midwifery. By Charles D. Meigs ...
LIBRA - Rare RG521 .M518 1838
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena), 1792-1869.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Obstetrics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Obstetrics.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 370 pages, [22] leaves of plates illustrations ; 20 cm
- Distribution:
- Pittsburgh, J. I. Kay & co.,
- Other Title:
- Meigs's Philadelphia Practice of Midwifery
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, J. Kay, jun. & brother, 1838.
- Contents:
- The Pelvis
- The Child's Head
- The Deformed Pelvis
- The Organs of Generation
- Menstruation
- Amenorrhœa
- Dysmenorrhœa
- Leucorrhœa
- Pregnancy
- Labour
- Conduct of a Labour
- Face Presentation
- On the Positions of the Head and Their Mechanism in Labour
- On Presentations of the Pelvic Extremity of the Fœtus
- On Preternatural Labour
- - Of the Forceps
- Inversion of the Womb
- Puerperal Fever
- Atresia Vaginæ.
- Notes:
- Preface addressed to René La Roche, M.D.
- Local Notes:
- Libra copy has title-page wanting
- Libra copy has publisher's advertisements (2 pages) tipped in before Preface.
- OCLC:
- 78553953
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