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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

GIFFARD, William ( – 1731)

– 1731

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1734

#6156.3

Cases in midwifry. Revised by Edward Hody.

GIFFARD, William ( – 1731) HODY, Edward (1698 – 1759)

Giffard was one of the first, after the Chamberlens, to use the forceps. His book contains, under case 14, the earliest published record of the use of the hitherto secret Chamberlen forceps, in 1726, together with ill…