MAURICEAU, François Tractaet van de siektens der swangere vrouwen en der gene die eerst gebaert hebben. Aenwysende de rechte en ware manier om de vrouwen in hare natuurlyke baringen wel te helpen, de geboortens tegen de natuur te recht te brengen,...
Estimation :
180 / 250
Adjudication :
Invendu
Description
en de siektens der jong-geborene kinderen te genesen [trsl. from the French]. 1683 A. Magnus, 4to, cont. calf (rubbed), gilt spine on 5 raised bands (head and tail repaired), [16]-408-[24] pp. (lacking engr. frontisp. with portrait, some minor thumbing and soiling, blank bottom half of last f. cut out and underlaid). Good copy.
Dutch trsl. (from the 3rd French ed. of 1681) of “Traité des maladies des femmes grosses” by Fr. Mauriceau (1637-1709), the book which “established obstetrics as a science” (G&M). “This was the outstanding textbook of the time, the first important textbook of obstetrics for nearly 60 years (since that of Jacques Guillemeau in 1609), and the first important obstetrical text to be published in five vernacular languages as well as Latin. While much in Mauriceau’s treatise echoed the teachings of his predecessors, the work also included several important new features, such as Mauriceau’s detailed analysis of the mechanism of labor, his introduction of the practice of delivering women in bed rather than in the obstetric chair, the earliest account of the prevention of congenital syphilis by antisyphilitic treatment during pregnancy, and the rebuttal of Paré’s erroneous account of pubic separation during birth” (Norman). Woodcut mark on title. 32 engravings.
Dutch trsl. (from the 3rd French ed. of 1681) of “Traité des maladies des femmes grosses” by Fr. Mauriceau (1637-1709), the book which “established obstetrics as a science” (G&M). “This was the outstanding textbook of the time, the first important textbook of obstetrics for nearly 60 years (since that of Jacques Guillemeau in 1609), and the first important obstetrical text to be published in five vernacular languages as well as Latin. While much in Mauriceau’s treatise echoed the teachings of his predecessors, the work also included several important new features, such as Mauriceau’s detailed analysis of the mechanism of labor, his introduction of the practice of delivering women in bed rather than in the obstetric chair, the earliest account of the prevention of congenital syphilis by antisyphilitic treatment during pregnancy, and the rebuttal of Paré’s erroneous account of pubic separation during birth” (Norman). Woodcut mark on title. 32 engravings.
