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Moreau on Obstetrics with Atlas

Title: Traite Pratique des Accouchemens
Author: Moreau, F[rancois]-J[oseph]
Description: 2 text volumes plus atlas volume. xiv, 564; [vi], 500 pp. Atlas contains 60 lithograph plates, each with a page of descriptive letterpress. Text volumes: (8vo) 8x5, calf-backed boards. Atlas volume: (Folio) 16¾x12½, modern calf-backed old boards. First Edition."The art of obstetrics was advanced considerably in nineteenth-century France, and Moreau, a member of the Medical Faculty of Paris, was one of its most active clinicians and writers. This exhaustive text treats the problems of pregnancy, normal and abnormal delivery, and anatomical anomalies of the newborn." Heirs of Hippocrates 1454.
Heading: Place Published: Paris
Publisher: Germer Bailliere
Date Published: 1837-41