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 38 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 ([14],328p.,5 plates )

Other Title:

Art of midwifery improv'd.

Place of Publication:

London : printed, and sold by A. Bettesworth, W. Taylor, and J. Batley, in Paternoster-Row; J. Wyat and C. Rivington, in St. Paul's Churchyard; E. Bell and W. Meadows, in Cornhill, and J. Hooke against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleetstreet, MDCCXXIII. [1723]

Notes:

Reproduction of original from Countway Library of Medicine.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N14582.

OCLC:

642140375