A collection of engravings, designed to facilitate the study of midwifery : explained and illustrated / By James Hamilton, junior.

  • Hamilton, James, -1839.
Date:
1796
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A collection of engravings, designed to facilitate the study of midwifery : explained and illustrated / By James Hamilton, junior. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    on the Gravid Uterus, and of Ur Smellie s Anatomical Tables. Although the former of thefe publications be highly interelling to Undents of anatomy, of painting, and of engraving; a (mail num- ber of copies only, and thefe at a reduced pi ice too, have been fold.—And witj^n thefe few years, the copperplates of Dr Smelhe’s work (the firft publication in this ifland calculated to- explain the mechanifm of hu- man parturition), from which no more than eighty copies had been thrown off, were ac- tually purchafed for the price of old copper. Thefe conuderations have fuggefted the expediency of reducing the (ize of engrav- ings relating to anatomical fubjedts to a fcale calculated to afford the work at a fmall price.—Thefe ferve the purpofe of recalling to the mind of the ftudent the great outlines of the objects he formerly examined, which, without fome fuch help, might readily efcape his recollection. To ftudents of midwifery, drawings are as neceffary as to ffudents of anatomy ; and therefore, Dr. Smellie’s plates were a long time ago publidled in a miniature form. But