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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

DEVENTER, Hendrik van (1651 – 1724)

1651 – 1724

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1701

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Manuale operatien, I. deel zijnde een neiuw ligt voor vroed-meesters en vroed-vrouen.

DEVENTER, Hendrik van (1651 – 1724)

This work gives the first accurate description of the female pelvis and its deformities, and the effect of the latter in complicating labor. The first edition contains a relatively unattractive frontispiece portrait o…