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GUILLEMEAU, JACQUES. 1550?-1613.
Child-Birth, or, The Happy Delivery of Women. London: printed by Anne Griffin, for Joyce Norton, and Richard Whitaker, 1635.

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GUILLEMEAU, JACQUES. 1550?-1613.

Child-Birth, or, The Happy Delivery of Women. London: printed by Anne Griffin, for Joyce Norton, and Richard Whitaker, 1635.
2 parts in 1 volume. 8vo (175 x 123 mm). [16], 247, [1], [14], 118 pp. Separate title for part 2. Woodcut illustrations in text, woodcut initials. Contemporary sheep. Custom cloth clamshell case. Old marginal dampstaining at front and end just reaching into text, some dustsoiling to title.

SECOND EDITION IN ENGLISH of this important work on childbirth. "Actual origin of the so–called 'Mauriceau' manoeuvre, usually credited to Mauriceau. Guillemeau was not only responsible for this technique for delivery of the after coming head [breach] so important before the forceps and Caesarian section, but he was also the first to employ podalic version in placenta praevia" (Garrison-Morton). The second part is on nursing. The French edition first appeared in 1609, with the first English edition following in 1612. STC 12497 (2nd ed). Cf. Garrison-Morton 6145.1 (First French ed).

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