Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1822

WILLIAM TYLER SMITH (1815-1873) Parturition and the principles and practice of obstetrics. Lea & Blanchard 1849 395 [9] pp., diagrs. 19.7 cm.

A native of Bristol, Smith studied medicine at the Bristol School of Medicine where he graduated in 1840. He began his medical career in London where he taught in a private medical school and became a subeditor of Lancet. Marshall Hall (see No. 1462 ff.) encouraged him to publish his lectures in Lancet and they eventually became the foundation of his two major works, the present treatise and the Manual of obstetrics (London, 1858) which was the standard work on the subject for a number of years. Smith also served as obstetric physician and lecturer on obstetrics at St. Mary's Hospital and played an important role in the founding of the Obstetrical Society of London, becoming its second president. The book includes twenty-six lectures on various aspects of parturition and obstetrics including normal and pathological conditions as well as illustrative case histories.

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