Barde

1807 · rif. 014368 — New York: Printed and Sold By Collins and Perkins 1807. Contemporary calf new calf spine and leather spine label One-word ink correction on p. 62 not on errata leaf. Lightly browned; a little soiling especially on lower corners and occasional minor stains; small repairs in one blank outer margins and two blank upper corners. Collation: 239 1 pp. Nineteen wood-engraved text illustrations.First textbook of midwifery by an American physician. Bard prepared this book for prospective midwives who could not afford an adequate formal education. His text "embodied the standard obstetric teaching of his day leaning heavily on the authority of Smellie Baudelocque Perfect and Denman and quoting selectively from their case reports. . . . He described well the mechanism of labor and presented an excellent picture of pre-eclampsia"Speert Obstetrics and gynecology in America: a history 126-27. Bard was one of the leading New York physicians of his time. His “favorite branch of medicine was midwifery. . . . Perhaps no physician in this country has ever enjoyed a larger share of practice in this department or acquired a higher reputation as an accoucheur" Kelly and Burrage Dictionary of American medical biography p. 60. Garrison-Morton 6163.1; Austin 116; Norman 120. See Cutter and Viets Short history of midwifery pp. 160-64 213-14; Kelly and Burrage pp. 58-60; Thoms Chapters in American obstetrics pp. 26-34 the title page is reproduced on p. 29. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. Printed and Sold By Collins and Perkins Hardcover