Search Results: Obstetrics

Ithaca NY: Cornell University, 1990. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 204. Notes, bibliography, index. Illustrated. Near fine in dj.

Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers Private Limited, 2016. Paperback. New.

London: H.K. Lewis. 1944. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Some minor rubbing to boards. A couple of pages have some faint annotations and professionally repaired small tears to edge. Foreword by Miles H. Phillips. 254 pages. . 1st Edition. Hardback.

Bios Scientific Publishers Ltd, 1993. Paperback. Used: Acceptable. Concise reference and review for postgraduate exams. Covers topical issues in oncology from basic science to clinical medicine. British oriented. Softcover. Gives essential information on 100 major subjects pertinent to modern clinical practice in obstetrics and gynaecology. The book is designed to encourage a problem-based approach to clinical scenarios. Each key topic can be read at an individual setting. It is prepared as a primer for examinations. Paperback - 1993 - good condition, bumped corner, price clipped, 1-872748-07-4 - - . Isbn 1872748074. Bios.

Baltimore: Self Published. Fair. 1836. Second Edition. Hardcover. Leather covers scuffed with more wear on the spine head. Rear cover reattached. Last plate mostly missing. All pages are foxed, but structurally good and mark-free. Few creased pages. ; Xxxii + 336 pages plus plates. ; 24mo 5" - 6" tall .

San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 2000. With over 500 illustrations, The Obstetrician's Armamentarium traces the evolution of obstetric instruments from ancient times to the end of the nineteenth century in Britain, Europe, and America. Though there have been other histories of obstetrics and obstetric instruments, these have concentrated mainly on forceps and their development ,and have not been extensively illustrated. The Obstetrician's Armamentarium is a survey of all types of obstetric instruments and contains definitive assessments of the different instruments and the procedures for which they are used, including forceps, extractors, fillets, tractors, levers, and pelvimeters, and analyzes their usefulness or lack thereof. There are also detailed discussions of the variety in blade length, handles, and articulations for numerous instruments. No other work available matches the scope of instruments discussed and the accompanying analyses. In addition, biographical sketches are given of the most… Read More

San Francisco: Norman Publishing, 1994. Second revised. New. Special quarter leather binding. The revised and corrected edition of Speert's classic pictorial history, originally issued in 1973. Drawing upon masterpieces of art, archeology and medicine throughout the ages, this work is the most complete pictorial record of the art and science of obstetrics and gynecology.

1890. Kelly, Howard A. (1858-1943). A successful Caeserean section for a large bony tumor choking the pelvis. In The Medical and Surgical Reporter 62, no. 4 (Jan. 25, 1890): 100-106. Whole number. xii, 95-126, xiii-xxiv pp. Text illustrations. 253 x 173 mm. Original printed wrappers, detached, a little chipped. Very good copy, with Kelly's presentation inscription to Henry M. Hurd (1843-1927) on the front wrapper: "Dr. Hurd Compliments HAK." First Edition. Kelly's paper describes his third cesarean operation, undertaken to remove a tumor blocking the pelvis of a pregnant patient. At this time cesarean sections were rare: two years previously, while practicing in Philadelphia, Kelly had become the first surgeon in that city in fifty years to perform a cesarean operation successfully. Kelly joined Johns Hopkins in 1889 as one of the "Four Founders" of the university's school of medicine. During his forty years at Johns Hopkins, Kelly made major advances in gynecological and abdominal surgery, and was… Read More

Altenburg, Paul Emanuel Richter, 1755,. RARE: Antiquarian book in Old German Gothic Script. Hebammenkunst is Midwifery. Size: 7.00 x 4.00 inches approx. Not knowing German or the Gothic script it is difficult to know the exact translation of the title but it could be A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery which is an antiquarian publication in English. Well used boards with background staining, (hardback) name of a previous owner to front endpaper dated 1927, some browining but thoroughly readable, engraved vignette to title page, 492 numbered pages, engraved embellishments, all edge red, full of character. Smellie, William, Theoretical and practical treatise on the art of midwifery. Translated from English by Johann Ernst Zeiher. VIII, 492 pages, . Altenburg, PE, Richter, 1755. Extracted from the internet: 'First German edition of the classic work on obstetrics. -. "Smellie (1697-1763) , contributed more to the fundamentals of obstetrics than virtually any individual… Read More

Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, 1794. First Isaiah Thomas Edition. Hardcover. Occasional foxing or staining, but generally clean in a Fine, handsome binding. Octavo (5" x 8-1/8") bound in recent full calf leather with gilt decoration to the boards and spine, raised bands, marbled endpapers; 302 pages. Complete with the original endpapers. First published in Edinburgh in 1784 and in America in Philadelphia in 1790, the Isaiah Thomas edition is fairly scarce. Austin 862; Evans 27084; Heirs of Hippocrates 652: "Hamilton was the first to distinguish and describe uterine and vaginal discharge and he promoted the concept of the perineum as supporting the pelvic structure.... The American edition of his later publication, TREATISE ON THE MANAGEMENT OF FEMALE COMPLAINTS (1793), is the first American publication devoted to the subject of gynecology."

78 brush & ink (black & occasional red) illus. & several diagrams. 64; 37; 37.5; 43; 68; 21.5 folding leaves. Six vols. Large 8vo (258 x 192 mm.), orig. semi-stiff wrappers, new stitching (a little loose in places). [Japan]: 1785 (copyist's colophon). A manuscript set of regulations for various life events and rituals, primarily related to marriage. The set contains several parts: "Konrei kizai shiki" 婚禮器財式 ["Wedding Implement Regulations"], "Konrei sekijō shiki" 婚禮席上式 ["Wedding Ceremony Regulations"], "Konrei nōsai shiki" 婚禮納菜式 ["Presentation of Food Regulations for the Wedding"], "Konrei rotō shiki" 婚禮路頭式 ["Wedding Roadside Regulations"], "Sanpu shiki" 產婦式 ["Regulations for Pregnant Women"], and "Kanrei shiki" 冠禮式 ["Regulations for the Capping Ceremony"]. Among the Tokugawa-period elite, weddings were lavish affairs regulated by custom. "Wealthy and powerful daimyo ordered magnificent wedding trousseaus for their daughters, and these… Read More

Many woodcut illus. in the text. In Chinese with Japanese reading marks. 47; 27 folding leaves. Two vols. 8vo, orig. wrappers (Vol. II with some minor marginal worming), new stitching. Kyoto: 1859. First edition to be published in Japan of a quite fascinating book. Hobson (1816-73), after studying medicine at University College, London, served with the London Missionary Society in China. Hobson arrived in Macao in 1839 and spent about twenty years in China in hospitals in Macao, Hong Kong, Canton and Shanghai. He was a pioneer in proposing the establishment of a medical school in Hong Kong for Chinese students and wrote many books, including an English/Chinese medical dictionary. A serious student of the Chinese language, Hobson also wrote in Chinese a series of four original medical books with two Chinese collaborators: Outline of Anatomy and Physiology (Quanti xin lun, 1850), First Lines of the Practice of Surgery in the West (Xiyi lüelun, 1857), Practice of Medicine and Materia… Read More

Numerous woodcut illus. in the text. 12 vols. 8vo, orig. semi-stiff wrappers (wrappers a little soiled), orig. block-printed title labels on upper covers, new stitching. Kyoto, Edo, Osaka & Nagoya: various publishers, 1850. First edition and a complete set of this finely illustrated book, the most comprehensive work on obstetrics published in Japan before the arrival of Admiral Perry and Western influences. "In 1850 Sansetsu or Gihaku Mizuhara (1782-1864), whose real given name was Yoshihiro, published his definitive work on obstetrics entitled San'iku zensho (sometimes referred to as Jyunsei-an san'iku zensho) in 11 volumes [actually 12 volumes], divided into three sections plus an appendix volume. The first section [Gaihen; External Care], comprising the first seven volumes, was on general obstetrics with text and illustrations describing placentation, monsters, the use of massage in obstetrics, obstetrical examination per vagina and per rectum, (primitive) positions for delivery, preparation of… Read More