MAURICEAU, Des maladies des femmes grosses, 1668
MAURICEAU, François.
Des maladies des femmes grosses et accouchées avec la bonne et véritable méthode de les bien aider en leurs accouchemens naturels etc.
Paris, Jean Henault, 1668.
4to (239x173 mm), (24)-536 pages. binding : Contemporary full calf, gilt spine in six compartments. Binding and engraved title repaired. Some minor stains.
First edition.
Illustrated with 30 gynecological and obstetric engravings in the text.
François Mauriceau (1637-1709), first midwife surgeon at the Paris Maternity Hospital, is considered the founder of French obstetrics.
Mauriceau's work on pregnancy and childbirth established obstetrics as an independent science and had, thanks to its numerous translations, a determining influence on obstetric practice in the 17th century.
references: Norman [1461 : "Mauriceau's book on pregnancy and childbirth established obstetrics as a separate science and became, via its many translation, a dominant force in seventeenth-century obstetrical practice. 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 ealiest account in the prevention of congenital syphilis by antisyphilitic treatment during pregnancy, and the rebuttal of Paré's erroneous account of public sepration durong birth"], Garrison-Morton [6147 : "The outstanding textbook of the time. Mauriceau, leading obstetrician of his day, introduced the practice of delivering his patients in bed instead of in the obstetrical chair."].
Price : 5000 €
