Langbein, August Christoph

Notes on Midwifery, taken down by Jacob Freidrich Buchfinck at Dresden University: Written in an interleaved copy of Johann von Hoorn's 'Die zwo ... Weh-Mutter Siphra und Pua' ... Dritte Auflage ... Stockholm und Leipzig: G. Kiesewetter. 1743. Written in red on the fly-leaf: 'Jacob Friedrich Buchfinck, Feldscher Anno 1750, hab ich bey dem Herrn Hoff-Accouscher Langbein ein Collegium von Accouschement gehört wobey dieser Autor zum Grund geleget werden in Dresden von den 1 May an bis den 1 December'. The notes extend only as far as p. 194 of the printed text. Produced in Dresden.

1750

1 volume 8 ll. + 313 pp. + 3 ll. 8vo. & 4to. 171/2 × 12 cm., 191/2 × 17 cm. Original half-calf binding.

Purchased 1930.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).