The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And the many errors in all the books hitherto written upon this subject clearly refuted. Illustrated with thirty eight cuts curiously engraven on copper plates, representing in their due proportion the several positions of a foetus. Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb, whether obliquely, or in a strait posture, may, by the hand only, without the use of any instrument, be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life either of mother or child. Written in Latin by Henry à Daventer. Made English. To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician

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  • The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And the many errors in all the books hitherto written upon this subject clearly refuted. Illustrated with thirty eight cuts curiously engraven on copper plates, representing in their due proportion the several positions of a foetus. Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb, whether obliquely, or in a strait posture, may, by the hand only, without the use of any instrument, be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life either of mother or child. Written in Latin by Henry à Daventer. Made English. To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician
  • Manuale operatien. Deel 1. English
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Imprint
London : printed [by Samuel Aris] for A. Bettesworth in Pater-Noster-Row; W. Innys at the west end of St. Paul's; and J. Pemberton against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet-street, MDCCXXVIII. [1728] The third edition corrected.; ..
Added name
Samber, Robert, translator.; Cockburn, W. (William), 1669-1739.
Publication year
1728
ESTC No.
T115049
Grub Street ID
166828
Description
[16],328p.,plates ; 8°.
Note
On page 328 the printer's device with legend "Imprim Sam Aris"

Translated by Robert Samber

'An eminent physician' = William Cockburn.
Uncontrolled note
GK thinks the Dutch edition precedes the Latin