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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

HARVIE, John (1710 – 1770)

1710 – 1770

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1767

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Practical directions, shewing a method of preserving the perinaeum in birth, and delivering the placenta without violence.

HARVIE, John (1710 – 1770)

Harvie, Smellie’s successor, advocated external expression of the placenta instead of traction on the cord, anticipating Credé in this connection by almost a century (see No. 6183). Reprinted in H. Thoms: Classic cont…