A course of lectures on the theory and practice of midwifry : in which, every thing essential to the true knowledge of that art will be fully explain'd and clearly demonstrated. ... The whole will be illustrated by such anatomical preparations and extraordinary cases as are applicable to each lecture, but particularly by real labours. / By John Leake, M D.

  • Leake, John, 1729-1792.
Date:
A.D. 1771
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Credit: A course of lectures on the theory and practice of midwifry : in which, every thing essential to the true knowledge of that art will be fully explain'd and clearly demonstrated. ... The whole will be illustrated by such anatomical preparations and extraordinary cases as are applicable to each lecture, but particularly by real labours. / By John Leake, M D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A C O U R S E ° F LECTURES On the Theory and Practice of I D W I F R Y : v '' *' ~ _ r IN WHIG H, Every Thing eflential to the true Knowledge of that Art will be fully explain’d and clearly demonstrated. The Ofteology of the Female Pelvis, Of the Organs of Generation,—the Theory of Conception,—and of the Nutrition and Situation of the Foetus in Utero :—The feveral Parts will be Shewn in their natural Situation, with Phyfiological Ob- fervations on their Strudure and Ufe, The Pathology or general Dodrine of the acute and chronical Difeafes incident to Women and Children, including their Nature, Caufes, Distinctions and Symptoms, as laid down by the belt Writers; to- .get her with pradical Obfervations and Remarks in their Treatment ,ure. For the clearer Demonstration of Operative Midwifry (whether Sim¬ ply by the Hand or the Application of Instruments) the feveral Me¬ thods of aSTiSting both in laborious and preternatural Labours, will not only be defcribed according to the moil approved modern Prac¬ tice, but dike wife diStindly Shewn by an artificial Reprefentation of each difficult Cafe upon Machines for that Purpofe, The Whole will be illustrated by fuch anatomical Preparations and ex¬ traordinary Cafes as are applicable to each Ledure, but particularly by real Labours. % V • By JOHN LEAKE, M D. Member of the Royal College of Phylkians, London, and Physician to the WESTMINSTER NEW LYING-IN HOSPITAL, At his Houfe in Craven Street, in the Strand. LONDON, A. D. 1771.