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Author/Creator:Burton, John, 1710-1771.
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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; ... all drawn up and illustrated with several curious observations, and eighteen copper-plates in four parts / by John Burton.
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Published/Created:London : Printed for James Hodges, 1751.
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Physical Description:xix, [5], 391, [25] p., [18] leaves of plate (some folded) : ill. ; 21 cm.
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Links:View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
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Notes:Illustrated by George Stubbs.
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Variant and related titles:Essay towards a complete new system of midwifery
- Format:Book
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References:G-M 6268.
English short title catalogue, T117270.
George Stubbs, 1724-1806 / [exhibition] Tate Gallery. London, 1984. p. 217.
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Subjects: Obstetrics--Early works to 1800.
Childbirth--Early works to 1800.
Pregnancy--Early works to 1800.
Labor (Obstetrics)--Early works to 1800.
Women--Diseases--Early works to 1800.
Infants--Diseases--Early works to 1800.
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Subjects (Medical):Midwifery--Early works to 1800.
Pregnancy Complications--Early works to 1800.
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Subjects (Local Yale):Hodges, James--Publisher.
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Genre/Form:Etchings.
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Also listed under:Stubbs, George, 1724-1806, ill.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3271856