An essay on the means of lessening pain, and facilitating certain cases of difficult parturition / By William P. Dewees, lecturer on midwifery, in Philadelphia.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Dewees, William, 1768-1841.

Contributor:

Andrews, John, 1746-1813.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Childbirth.

Labor (Obstetrics)--Complications.

Labor (Obstetrics).

Genre:

Academic dissertations -- Pennsylvania -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

Pepper, William (bookplate) (RBC copy 1)

Pepper, William, 1874-1947 (donor) (RBC copy 1)

Billings, John Shaw, M.D. (donor) (RBC copy 2)

Pepper, William (donor) (RBC copy 3)

Physical Description:

95 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm (8vo)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Printed for the author, by John H. Oswald, 1806.

Notes:

Signatures: [A]1 [B]4 C-M4 N3.

"An inaugural dissertation, for the degree of doctor of medicine, submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Andrews, D.D. Provost, (Pro Tem.) the trustees and medical professors of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 21st day of April, 1806.": p. [3].

Thesis (M.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1806.

Local Notes:

Copy 2 with: An inaugural essay, on the use of artifical drains, in the prevention and cure of disease. Philadelphia : Printed by Thomas T. Stites [i.e.] ..., 1806.

Copy 3 with: Remarks on the medical theories of Brown, Cullen, Darwin, & Rush / by John T. Rees, of Maryland ... Philadelphia : Printed for the author, by Robert CArr ..., 1805. (RBC R130.R4 1805)

Cited in:

Shaw & Shoemaker 10282

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 663

OCLC:

2058631