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.

Standardized Title:

Manuale operation. Deel 1. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Obstetrics--Early works to 1800.

Obstetrics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([16],328p.,plates )

Edition:

The third edition corrected.

Other Title:

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.

Place of Publication:

London : printed [by Samuel Aris] for A. Bettesworth in Pater-Noster-Row; W. Innys at the West End of St. Paul's; and J. Pemberton against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-Street, MDCCXXVIII. [1728]

Notes:

On page 328 the printer's device: Imprim. Sam Aris.

Reproduction of original from John Rylands University Library of Manchester.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T115049.

OCLC:

642293999