Teaching the art of obstetrics to women by Mikolaj Mianowski
Estr. XIX vol. 3 s. 105.
Second edition (first in 1818) of an early Polish textbook on obstetrics.
Mikolaj Mianowski (1780-1843) - professor of physiology and obstetrics, rector of the University and Medical-Surgical Academy in Vilnius.
The textbook consists of 28 chapters covering a wide range of topics related to female physiology, pregnancy, childbirth and diseases of newborn children. Above that, the author describes the duties of a midwife "in religious regard" and in "legal and judicial events."
Year of publication: Vilna 1825, Jozef Zawadzki by his own imprint
p. XII, [2], 474
Format: 19 x 12.5 cm
Binding: period half leather, decayed page edges
Condition: complete and consistent, minor rust discoloration in places [foxing - no harm to text], dry traces of former flooding on page edges [paper discoloration, no harm to text], no signatures or underlining in text, minor extraneous signatures on pre-title page [pencil], cover with rubbing and loss of top cover.
