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The beginning of scientific obstetrics in Germany
Icones uteri humani observationibus illustratae.
Göttingen, Vanden Hoeck, 1759. Folio (505 x 295 mm). [IV], 45, [15] p. Large paper copy.
With 7 engraved folding out plates designed and engraved by J.P Kaltenhofer.
Brown sprinled sheep, gold tooled. On the cover a border composed of several rolls with in the corners an abstract flower tool. Central a lozenge shaped flower tool. Flat spine divided into 5 compartments with rich tooling.
First and only edition of this excellent atlas of the uterus remarkable for its fine plates, drawn and engraved by J.P. Kaltenhofer. Roederer (1726-1763) was born in Strassburg. In 1748 he went to London where he studied anatomy under William Hunter and midwifery under William Smellie. He continued his anatomical studies at the celebrated university of Leyden where his teacher was B.S. Albinus. Roederer was appointed the first professor of obstetrics in Germany in Göttingen (1751), and erected there the first nursery of scientific obstetricians in Germany. He founded the science of obstetrics upon the basis of anatomy and physiology, banished the medical and exaggerated instrumental midwifery of his day, and aided manual midwifery to assume its proper position. This superior atlas of the uterus with seven folio plates, was the result of his autopsy studies at the Lying-in Hospital at Göttingen. Here he stated that during the third month of pregnancy the cervix was felt lower down in the vaginal canal than the normal position. His name is associated with the obstetrical term: Roederer-Kopfhaltung.
-Literature: Hirsch IV, 845/6; Cutter & Viets, A short history of midwifery, p. 202; Not in Choulant-Frank; Fassbender 556; Waller I, 8068; Baas-Handerson, 683; Hagelin, The byrth of mankynde, p. 120-121;-On van der Mey: NNBW I, 1331.
-Condition: Tooling gold faded away; In the middle of the front edge paper some cm. instable by moulding; Mediocre foxing in the text leaves; Plates a few small stains but generally clean.
With 7 engraved folding out plates designed and engraved by J.P Kaltenhofer.
Brown sprinled sheep, gold tooled. On the cover a border composed of several rolls with in the corners an abstract flower tool. Central a lozenge shaped flower tool. Flat spine divided into 5 compartments with rich tooling.
First and only edition of this excellent atlas of the uterus remarkable for its fine plates, drawn and engraved by J.P. Kaltenhofer. Roederer (1726-1763) was born in Strassburg. In 1748 he went to London where he studied anatomy under William Hunter and midwifery under William Smellie. He continued his anatomical studies at the celebrated university of Leyden where his teacher was B.S. Albinus. Roederer was appointed the first professor of obstetrics in Germany in Göttingen (1751), and erected there the first nursery of scientific obstetricians in Germany. He founded the science of obstetrics upon the basis of anatomy and physiology, banished the medical and exaggerated instrumental midwifery of his day, and aided manual midwifery to assume its proper position. This superior atlas of the uterus with seven folio plates, was the result of his autopsy studies at the Lying-in Hospital at Göttingen. Here he stated that during the third month of pregnancy the cervix was felt lower down in the vaginal canal than the normal position. His name is associated with the obstetrical term: Roederer-Kopfhaltung.
-Literature: Hirsch IV, 845/6; Cutter & Viets, A short history of midwifery, p. 202; Not in Choulant-Frank; Fassbender 556; Waller I, 8068; Baas-Handerson, 683; Hagelin, The byrth of mankynde, p. 120-121;-On van der Mey: NNBW I, 1331.
-Condition: Tooling gold faded away; In the middle of the front edge paper some cm. instable by moulding; Mediocre foxing in the text leaves; Plates a few small stains but generally clean.
€ 2.500
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