Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 604

FRANçOIS MAURICEAU (1637-1709) Traité des maladies des femmes grosses, et de celles qui sont nouvellement accouchées. Chez l'auteur 1675 2nd ed. [18] 501 [25] pp., illus. 23.5 cm.

Mauriceau, a Parisian, was an ordinary surgeon and not a doctor of medicine, but his close observation and detailed studies of the fetus, the pregnant uterus, the female pelvis, and the techniques of delivery made him a leading obstetrician of his time. His famous work on pregnancy and delivery, here in second edition, was first published in 1668 and went through many editions and translations. "It established obstetrics as a science" (Garrison-Morton 6147).

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 6147 (1st ed., 1668); Waller 6364 (1681 ed.)

Gift of Walter L. Bierring, M.D