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• Title:An essay towards a complete new system of midwifry, theoretical and practical : together with the descriptions, causes, and methods of removing, or relieving the disorders peculiar to pregnant and lying-in women, and new-born infants ; interspersed with several new improvements ; whereby women may be delivered, in the most dangerous cases, with more ease, safety, and expedition, than by any other method heretofore practised ; part of which has been laid before the Royal Society at London, and the Medical Society at Edinburgh ; after having been perused by many of the most eminent of their profession, both in Great Britain and Ireland;by whom they were greatly approved of ; all drawn up and illustrated with several curious observations, and eighteen copper-plates ; in four parts / by John Burton.
  
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• Variant Title:Burton's midwifery
  
• Author/Creator:Burton, John, 1710-1771.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Gerald W. Korn Obstetrics & Gynecology Collection.
  
• Published/Created:London : James Hodges, 1751.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Korn collectionWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WZ260 .B878 1751
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Obstetrics--Early works to 1800.
  Childbirth--Early works to 1800.
  Labor--Early works to 1800.
  
• Medical Subjects: Midwifery--Early works to 1800.
  Obstetrics--Early works to 1800.
  
• Description:xix, [4], 391, [24] p., [18] p. of fold. plates : illustrations ;
  
• Notes:Includes index.