A set of anatomical tables, with explanations, and an abridgment of the practice of midwifery; with a view to illustrate a treatise on that subject, and collection of cases / By William Smellie.

Philadelphia : Printed by T. Dobson, 1797.

v pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, 7-98 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf, 40 engr. plates ; (8vo)

Austin 1756

Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1756

ESTC W3453

Evans, 32221

Plates 1-39, engraved by John Norman, are the same as those in Norman's 1786 Boston edition with title: An abridgment of the practice of midwifery: and a set of anatomical tables

Apparently issued to accompany Alexander Hamilton's Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery, which has the same imprint

"Additional table," no. 40 (p. 96-98) is by Dr. Thomas Young.

Copy 1 Note: Bound with:, and issued as a companion volume to, A. Hamilton's Outlines of ... midwifery, 1797. The 40 plates are indentical with those in the Worcester edition of 1793; nos. 1 to 39 were engraved, after the originals, by J. Norman of Boston who published them first in 1786 (see entry under that year)