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SPRATT, George. Obsteric Tables, comprising Graphic Illustrations, with Descriptions and Practical Remarks, exhibiting on dissected Plates many important Subjects in Midwifery. London: John Churchill, 1838.
2 volumes, 4o (275 x 218 mm). 19 engraved plates (14 colored and with moveable flaps). (Some foxing.) Original cloth (some rubbing).
Third edition. Spratt's obstetric tables went through many editions in England and America through the 19th century and were supposedly being used for instruction as late as 1914 at Harvard University. They provided both convenience of use and currency of information, which the grand 18th-century obstetric atlases of Smellie and Hunter could not supply. The tables were also considered innovative because of their multiple overlay method of instruction, borrowed from the anatomist surgeon Tuson who had revived this sixteenth-century style of anatomical illustration in his folio atlases of the early 19th century. Cutter & Viets, Short History of Midwifery, pp. 232-33. See Waller and Reynolds 3093-5 (later or incomplete copies). (2)
2 volumes, 4
Third edition. Spratt's obstetric tables went through many editions in England and America through the 19th century and were supposedly being used for instruction as late as 1914 at Harvard University. They provided both convenience of use and currency of information, which the grand 18th-century obstetric atlases of Smellie and Hunter could not supply. The tables were also considered innovative because of their multiple overlay method of instruction, borrowed from the anatomist surgeon Tuson who had revived this sixteenth-century style of anatomical illustration in his folio atlases of the early 19th century. Cutter & Viets, Short History of Midwifery, pp. 232-33. See Waller and Reynolds 3093-5 (later or incomplete copies). (2)