Le guide des accoucheurs, ou le maistre dans l'art d'accoucher les femmes, et de les soulager dans les maladies & accidens dont elles sont tres-souvent attaquees . . . Le tout en forme d'examen. Par Jacques Mesnard.
by MESNARD, Jacques
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About This Item
Paris:: Chez de Bure, Le Breton, Durand, 1753., 1753. 8vo. xxxii, 388, [4] pp. 15 engraved plates. Old French mottled calf, spine gilt, red leather label; corners showing, hinges and spine ends worn. Former ownership inscription obscured, ms. on title "Ex libris Julian Galloin, anno 1789." SECOND EDITION, revised, corrected and augmented by the author. Mesnard, "a surgeon of Rouen, who was the first of the French to direct attention to the forceps in a book. The obstetric position was still upon the back with the feet drawn up against the buttocks." [Baas]. Baas, Outlines of the History of Medicine, p. 681; Blake, p. 302.
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- Jeff Weber Rare Books (CH)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- Le guide des accoucheurs, ou le maistre dans l'art d'accoucher les femmes, et de les soulager dans les maladies & accidens dont elles sont tres-souvent attaquees . . . Le tout en forme d'examen. Par Jacques Mesnard.
- Author
- MESNARD, Jacques
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Chez de Bure, Le Breton, Durand, 1753.
- Place of Publication
- Paris:
- Date Published
- 1753
- Keywords
- Obstetrics
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