Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1034

ALEXANDER HAMILTON (1739-1802) Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery. Printed by Isaiah Thomas 1794 From the last British ed., rev., corr., and enl.; 1st Worcester ed. 302 pp. 19.3 cm.

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Hamilton's Outlines is actually a revision of his first major work on midwifery, Elements of midwifery, first published at Edinburgh in 1775. The work was published in the United States for the first time at Philadelphia in 1790.

Cited references: Austin 862; Waller 4033 (1790 ed.); Wellcome III, p. 202 (1791 ed.)

In memory of Robert D. Gauchat