Beschreibung:

Guillemeau (Jacques). Child-Birth or, the Happy Deliverie of Women. Wherein is set downe the gouernment of women. In the time of their breeding childe: of their trauaile, both naturall, and contrary to nature: and of their lying in. Together with the diseases, which happen to women in those times, and the means to helpe them. To which is added, a treatise of the diseases of infants, and young children: with the cure of them, 1st edition in English, A. Hattfield, 1612, 18 woodcut illustrations, a few leaves close-trimmed at upper margin (just affecting one or two headlines at end), a little minor spotting, armorial bookplate of John Quayle, contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title to spine, some soiling and stains, small 4to (Qty: 1) ESTC S103545; Garrison-Morton 6145.1; STC 12496; Wellcome 3002. First edition in English of Guillemeau's De l'heureux accouchement des femmes and his De la nourriture et gouvernement des enfans (Paris, 1609), only the second midwifery manual printed in English (the first was Thomas Raynalde's Byrth of Mankynde, 1545, also a translation). The work is the '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 [i.e. a breech delivery] so important before the forceps and Caesarian section, but he was also the first to employ podalic version in placenta praevia' (Garrison-Morton).