Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 803

JEAN ASTRUC (1684-1766) L'art d'accoucher réduit à ses principes, où l'on expose les pratiques les plus sûres & les plus usitées dans les différentes especes d'accouchemens. Chez P. Guillaume Cavelier 1766 lxxxvii, 392 pp. 16.4 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 800

Although this book was published as a separate work and is complete in itself, it is often considered the seventh and final volume of Astruc's extensive treatise on the diseases of women, Traité des maladies des femmes (1761-1765). The last two sections of the work bear intriguing titles: "Decision of the doctors of the Sorbonne on the validity of baptism by injection" (i.e., through the vagina on the undelivered fetus) and "Response to a letter from M.D.F.B. on the conduct of Adam and Eve regarding their first children."

Cited references: Garrison-Morton 6019; Osler 1858; Waller 512; Wellcome II, p. 65

Gift of John Martin, M.D.