William Smellie : the master of British midwifery
Johnstone, R. W.1952
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Lanark obstetrician, William Smellie, practiced medicine before getting a licence, but enrolled later at the University of Glasgow and received his M.D.degree in 1745. After training in obstetrics in London and Paris, he opened a practice in London and began teaching. He invented a "machine", an obstetrical manikin, for instructions. Smellie described the mechanism of labour, designed obstetrical forceps, devised a maneuver to deliver the head of a breech, and published his teachings. The William Smellie Memorial Hospital which provided maternity services in Lanark closed in the early 1990s.
Main title:
William Smellie : the master of British midwifery / R.W. Johnstone.
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Imprint:
Edinburgh; London : E.& S. Livingstone, 1952.
Collation:
viii, 139 pages : illustrations (black and white), portraits (black and white, and colour)
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Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
A016505 (invalid)
Dewey class:
ULN920.SMEL920.SMEL
Language:
English
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BRN:
2366776
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