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 ... : Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life of either 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.

  • Deventer, Hendrik van, 1651-1724.
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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 ... : Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life of either 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. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Operationes chirurgicae novum lumen exhibentes obstetricantibus. English

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London : Printed for E. Curll ... J. Pemberton ... and W. Taylor ..., 1716.

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14 unnumbered pages, 328 pages, 5 unnumbered folded plates : illustrations ; (8vo)

Notes

Originally published in Dutch, under title: Manuele operatien, and Latin, under title: Operationes chirurgicae novum lumen exhibentes obstetricantibus
Signatures: A8 (-A8) B-X8 Y4
References: Wellcome cat. of printed books, v.2, p. 460.

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ESTC T120705

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