Cartilla nueva util y necesaria para instruirse las matronas que vulgarmente se llaman comadres, en el oficio de partear / Mandada hacer por el Real Tribunal del Proto-Medicato. Al Doclor [sic] D. Antonio Medina.

En México : En la Oficina de Doña Maria Fernandez de Jauregui ..., Año 1806.

80 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; (8vo)

León (1915) 196

Medina (Mex) vii 9880

Originally published in Madrid at the direction of the Protomedicato in Spain to serve as a handbook for preparing midwives for the Protomedicato's examination of their professional knowledge and skills. Cf. An annotated catalogue of medical Americana in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, p. 93

Signatures: [A]8 B-E8

Folded leaf of plates is laid in between p. [12] and [13]; no mention of this plate is found in the citations for this ed. in Wellcome, Americana, NUC pre-56, Medina, Le imprenta en México, or Guerra, Icon. méd. mex

Medina, J.T. México, 9880; Wellcome Inst. Annotated cat. of medical Americana, M.88; Guerra, F. Iconografía médica mexicana, 560; NUC pre-56