Author: WILLIAM SMELLIE TRANSLATED FROM ENGLISH BY JOHANN ERNST ZEIHER
Title: Hebammenkunst
Description: Altenburg, Paul Emanuel Richter, 1755. . RARE: Antiquarian book in Old German Gothic Script. Hebammenkunst is Midwifery. Size: 7.00 x 4.00 inches approx. Not knowing German or the Gothic script it is difficult to know the exact translation of the title but it could be A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery which is an antiquarian publication in English. Well used boards with background staining, (hardback) name of a previous owner to front endpaper dated 1927, some browining but thoroughly readable, engraved vignette to title page, 492 numbered pages, engraved embellishments, all edge red, full of character. Smellie, William, Theoretical and practical treatise on the art of midwifery. Translated from English by Johann Ernst Zeiher. VIII, 492 pages. Altenburg, PE, Richter, 1755. Extracted from the internet: 'First German edition of the classic work on obstetrics. -. "Smellie (1697-1763) , contributed more to the fundamentals of obstetrics than virtually any individual in his, Treatise 'he more accurately than any previous Described the mechanism of parturition writer, stressing the importance of exact measurement of the pelvis Hey. Was the first to lay down rules regarding the safe use of forceps, and personally Introduced the steel-lock, the curved, and the double forceps. He invented the, Smellie maneuver 'to deliver breech cases. " (Garrison / Morton 6154, the original-outputs. 1752) . - Smellie, "is rightly considered the father of natural childbirth help ... The op surgery he tried to limit as much as possible" (Hirsch) . '.
Keywords: W. Birth Medicine
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Title: Hebammenkunst
Description: Altenburg, Paul Emanuel Richter, 1755. . RARE: Antiquarian book in Old German Gothic Script. Hebammenkunst is Midwifery. Size: 7.00 x 4.00 inches approx. Not knowing German or the Gothic script it is difficult to know the exact translation of the title but it could be A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery which is an antiquarian publication in English. Well used boards with background staining, (hardback) name of a previous owner to front endpaper dated 1927, some browining but thoroughly readable, engraved vignette to title page, 492 numbered pages, engraved embellishments, all edge red, full of character. Smellie, William, Theoretical and practical treatise on the art of midwifery. Translated from English by Johann Ernst Zeiher. VIII, 492 pages. Altenburg, PE, Richter, 1755. Extracted from the internet: 'First German edition of the classic work on obstetrics. -. "Smellie (1697-1763) , contributed more to the fundamentals of obstetrics than virtually any individual in his, Treatise 'he more accurately than any previous Described the mechanism of parturition writer, stressing the importance of exact measurement of the pelvis Hey. Was the first to lay down rules regarding the safe use of forceps, and personally Introduced the steel-lock, the curved, and the double forceps. He invented the, Smellie maneuver 'to deliver breech cases. " (Garrison / Morton 6154, the original-outputs. 1752) . - Smellie, "is rightly considered the father of natural childbirth help ... The op surgery he tried to limit as much as possible" (Hirsch) . '.
Keywords: W. Birth Medicine
Price: GBP 450.00 = appr. US$ 642.59 Seller: Horsham Rare Books
- Book number: 14877
- Book number: 14877
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