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.

  • Smellie, William, 1697-1763.
Date:
1797
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Publication/Creation

Philadelphia : Printed by T. Dobson, 1797.

Physical description

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

Notes

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)

References note

Austin 1756
Austin, R.B. Early Amer. medical imprints, 1756
ESTC W3453
Evans, 32221

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