A set of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment of the practice of midwifery : with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases / by William Smellie, M.D.

  • Smellie, William, 1697-1763.
Date:
1787
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Credit: A set of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment of the practice of midwifery : with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases / by William Smellie, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    high for the common Jhortforceps^ and alfoto ohviate an inconvenience complained of by many practitioners, of//j^/rlockingwithinthe *vagiJ2a^ the long forceps of Mr Leveret of Paris, Drs Smellie and Leak of London, and of Mr Pugh of Chelmsford in EiTex, have been invented. The lightnefs and neatnels of Gondrudtion of Dr Leak's, withjuftice, in- title them to the preference. Fig. 5. The blunt hook, as prefently ufed, with a fwell in the middle, by which a more fecure hold can be taken, and the extra£lion accomplifhed with more fafety and fuccefs, than with the ftraight hook.