Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1616

JULES HATIN (ca. 1800-1839) A manual of practical obstetrics. J. Grigg 1828 [4] 198 pp. 17.4 cm.

Hatin, professor of obstetrics and the diseases of women and children on the Paris medical faculty, was an accomplished medical writer and several of his works, including this one, became popular in the United States. The present work was first published in French at Paris in 1827 as La manoeuvre de tous les accouchemens contre nature, went through four French editions and was also translated into German. It is here translated into English by Samuel David Gross (see No. 1678 ff.). An appendix contains a translation of Magendie's (see No. 1379 ff.) A physiological memoir upon the brain which was read at a meeting of the Royal Academy of Sciences on June 16, 1828. The translation was made by Joseph Gardner (fl. 1820).

See Related Record(s): 1678 1379 1616.1

Cited references: Wellcome III, p. 223