Nihell (Elizabeth). A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery. Setting forth Various Abuses therein, especially as to the Practice with Instruments: the whole serving to put all Rational Inquirer in a Fair Way of very safely forming their own Judgment upon the Question; which it is best to employ, in Cases of Pregnancy and Lying-in, a Man-Midwife; or, a Midwife, 1st ediition, printed for A. Morley, 1760, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, a little spotting and staining to title-page, stains in text of pp. 40-1 and margins of pp. 222-3, contemporary calf, red morocco label, spine-compartments and covers double ruled in gilt, rubbed and scuffed overall, 8vo (20 x 12.3 cm) (Qty: 1) ESTC T152318; Wellcome IV p. 239. First and only edition of the author's only book. 'Elizabeth Nihell's defence of her profession helped to raise public awareness of an important problem' (ODNB), criticising the growing fashion for male midwives and the practices of obstetrician William Smellie and thereby incurring the ridicule of Smellie's student Tobias Smollett. In spite of its influential trail the book is rare at auction; ESTC traces six copies only in UK libraries.
Nihell (Elizabeth). A Treatise on the Art of Midwifery. Setting forth Various Abuses therein, especially as to the Practice with Instruments: the whole serving to put all Rational Inquirer in a Fair Way of very safely forming their own Judgment upon the Question; which it is best to employ, in Cases of Pregnancy and Lying-in, a Man-Midwife; or, a Midwife, 1st ediition, printed for A. Morley, 1760, woodcut initials and head- and tailpieces, a little spotting and staining to title-page, stains in text of pp. 40-1 and margins of pp. 222-3, contemporary calf, red morocco label, spine-compartments and covers double ruled in gilt, rubbed and scuffed overall, 8vo (20 x 12.3 cm) (Qty: 1) ESTC T152318; Wellcome IV p. 239. First and only edition of the author's only book. 'Elizabeth Nihell's defence of her profession helped to raise public awareness of an important problem' (ODNB), criticising the growing fashion for male midwives and the practices of obstetrician William Smellie and thereby incurring the ridicule of Smellie's student Tobias Smollett. In spite of its influential trail the book is rare at auction; ESTC traces six copies only in UK libraries.
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