An abstract of midwifry, for the use of the Lying-in Infirmary. [-A single lecture in midwifry, on the glass machine. -The institution and oeconomy of the ... Infirmary] / [Sir Richard Manningham].

  • Manningham, Richard, Sir, 1690-1759
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An abstract of midwifry, for the use of the Lying-in Infirmary. [-A single lecture in midwifry, on the glass machine. -The institution and oeconomy of the ... Infirmary] / [Sir Richard Manningham]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London : T. Gardner, 1744.

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viii, 35 pages ; (4to)

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Not a translation of 'Artis obstetricariae compendium' as sometimes stated (though it includes extracts from the work)
Manningham established the first lying-in hospital in Britain in 1739.
Copy 1 Note: Claims of a link between this pioneer effor and later hospitals are discounted by J.E. Donnison (Med. Hist., vol. xv, p. 398-400, 1971)

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