Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1161

JOSEPH JAKOB VON MOHRENHEIM (1759?-1799). Abhandlung über die Entbindungskunst. St. Petersburg: Gedruckt bey der K. Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1791. [14] 216 [50] pp., 46 plates; 52.1 cm.

An Austrian, Mohrenheim became body-surgeon and accoucheur to Empress Catherine II of Russia, by whose order this now rare work was published. The book opens with a brief literary history of obstetrics, followed by an extensive text. The remarkable life-size engravings, many of them after Smellie (see No. 825), represent female genitalia, embryos, deliveries, and instruments.

See Related Record(s): 825

Cited references: Cushing M437 (1803 ed.); Garrison-Morton 6161; Waller 6594 (1803 ed.)

Gift of John Martin, M.D.