The art of midwifery improv'd. : Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And The many Errors in all the Books hitherto written upon this Subject clearly refuted. Illustrated with thirty eight cuts curiously Engraven on Copper Plates, representing in their due Proportion the several Positions of a Foetus. Also A New Method, demonstrating, How Infants ill situated in the Womb, whether obliquely, or in a strait Posture, may, by the Hand only, without the Use of any Instrument, be turned into their right Position, without hazarding the Life either of Mother or Child. Written in Latin by Henry à Daventer. Made English. To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Deventer, Hendrik van, 1651-1724.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Standardized Title:

Manuale operation. Deel 1. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fetus.

Medicine--Practice.

Medicine.

Obstetrics--Early works to 1800.

Obstetrics.

Physical Description:

16 unnumbered pages,328 pages,5 plates ; 8⁰

Edition:

The fourth edition corrected.

Place of Publication:

London : printed for W. Innys, and C. Hitch in Pater-Noster-Row; J. Hodges, near London Bridge; and J. Pemberton in Fleet-Street, MDCCXLVI. [1746]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from Countway Library of Medicine.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N14581.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.