A rare mid 19th Century French mid-wifes delivery chair or"chaise d' accoucher", the mahogany-framed arm-chair upholstered with green velvet converting to a delivery table, lined in black leather, with folding leg-braces and adjustable back rest - 47½in.high

細節

A rare mid 19th Century French mid-wifes delivery chair or"chaise d' accoucher", the mahogany-framed arm-chair upholstered with green velvet converting to a delivery table, lined in black leather, with folding leg-braces and adjustable back rest - 47½in.high

出版

C.Keith Wilbur,M.D. Antique Medical Instruments,1987 p.73

拍品專文

In 19th Century France the local mid-wife often undertook further dutiessuch as cupping and bleeding, and vaccination. This chair, used in an outlying village near Tours in the Loire valley, would have been keptin the mid-wifes house: it could also have been used by the local surgeon for the operation of lithotomy, the two positions (in those days) being somewhat similar