Item #17648 Medical Theses Collection Charts the Birth of Modern Obstetrics and Departure From Midwifery. Le Baron de Haller Obstetrics- Medicine.
Medical Theses Collection Charts the Birth of Modern Obstetrics and Departure From Midwifery
Medical Theses Collection Charts the Birth of Modern Obstetrics and Departure From Midwifery

Medical Theses Collection Charts the Birth of Modern Obstetrics and Departure From Midwifery

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Le Baron De Haller. Collection de Theses Medico-Chirurgicales, Sur les points les plus importans de la Chirurgie theorique & pratique: Tome Premier et Tome Second [Collection of Medico-Surgical Theses, On the most important points of Theoretical & Practical Surgery]. Paris: Chez Vincent, 1757. Duedecimo, calf binding, 414 pages. In french Endpapers and edges attractively marbled. Haller assembled dissertations from various famous physicians, and a large portion of the volume is devoted to obstetrics. The 18th century marked the beginning of many advances in European midwifery, based on better knowledge of the physiology of pregnancy and labor. By the end of the century, medical professionals began to understand the anatomy of the uterus and the physiological changes that take place during childbirth. Like most of the medical advances of the eighteenth century, advances associated with obstetrics were linked to the prevailing philosophy of the Enlightenment, which advocated for a rational approach to the events surrounding childbirth. This text represents some of the earliest advances in modern physician-led obstetrics, as opposed to the traditional midwifery. Includes incredible early medical content, such as "On the extraction of a child pulled alive from a womb taken out of the pelvis" from November 1748; "on a womb that split open in the pains of childbirth" from December 1736, "on a womb that opened in childbirth" from march 1735, "Is the Cesarean operation a surer and less criminal means of saving the mother and the child than the use of hooks and other clamps to save the mother at the expense of the child?" from June 1744, "On a new way to heal the womb" from November 1710, "on the need to carry out the extraction of an adherent placenta as soon as possible" from December 1735, "reversal of the womb, and on the relaxation of the vagina" from June 1745, "on a drop of womb which caused suppression of urine, followed by death" from April 1732, or "On Births against nature that require the use of instruments" from August 1740: "Natural childbirth is that in which the child [...] presents itself at the opening of the vagina, so that the contractions of the womb produce its exit and that of the afterbirth. Instruments, even the hand, are useless here; the weight of the child, the contraction of the diaphragm, that of the abdominal muscles, and the irritation produced on the womb, are the agents of this kind of childbirth, which is fortunately the most common. Childbirth against nature is one where the child cannot grow from the womb without the help of Art..." Boards loose but not fully seperated. Good condition.

Item #17648

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