A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying-in women, and the means of curing, but more especially of preventing the principal disorders to which they are liable : together with some new directions concerning the delivery of the child and placenta in natural births : illustrated with cases / by Charles White, Esq. F. R. S. memb. of the Corp. of Surg. in London; Surg. to the Infirm. and Lunat. Hosp. and V. P. of the Lit. and Phil. Soc. of Manchester: hon. memb. of the Roy. Med. Soc. and of the Phys. Chirurg. Soc. and of the Soc. for the Encouragement of the Study of Nat. Hist. of Edinburgh: and cor. memb. of the Roy. Soc. of Scotland.

  • White, Charles, 1728-1813.
Date:
1785
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Credit: A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying-in women, and the means of curing, but more especially of preventing the principal disorders to which they are liable : together with some new directions concerning the delivery of the child and placenta in natural births : illustrated with cases / by Charles White, Esq. F. R. S. memb. of the Corp. of Surg. in London; Surg. to the Infirm. and Lunat. Hosp. and V. P. of the Lit. and Phil. Soc. of Manchester: hon. memb. of the Roy. Med. Soc. and of the Phys. Chirurg. Soc. and of the Soc. for the Encouragement of the Study of Nat. Hist. of Edinburgh: and cor. memb. of the Roy. Soc. of Scotland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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