Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1708

FLEETWOOD CHURCHILL (1808-1878) On the theory and practice of midwifery. Lea and Blanchard 1846 2nd American ed. xvi [17]-525 [3] 32 pp., illus., tables. 23.3 cm.

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This work was first published at London in 1842 and the following year in the United States. It was developed from a syllabus on the same subject which Churchill had published at Dublin in 1834. The book became one of his most popular works and "the American edition has not only met the approval of the leading journals of this country, but has been adopted as a text-book in many of the largest and best-organized medical schools" (Preface [vii]). The notes and additions to this second American edition were provided by Robert M. Huston (1794-1864), professor of materia medica and general therapeutics and a former professor of obstetrics and the diseases of women and children at the Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.