STUBBS, George (1724 – 1806)
1724 – 1806
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
Image source George Stubbs · Unknown source Unknown source · Public domain
1751 CE
#6268
An essay towards a complete new system of midwifery, theoretical and practical.
Burton was the first to suggest that puerperal fever is contagious, and the first to give a detailed discussion of Caesarean section. Laurence Steme satirized him as “Dr. Slop” in The life and opinions of …
1766 CE
#308.1
The anatomy of the horse.
The first original work on equine anatomy after Ruini (No. 285). Stubbs, the great painter of animals, prepared his own dissections of horse carcasses, and personally engraved the 24 double folio plates for this work,…
1975 CE
#6610.11
The anatomical works of George Stubbs.
Reproduces all of the known anatomical drawings of the painter, George Stubbs (1724-1806), together with his midwifery illustrations and the text and plates for his work on anatomy of the horse. (No. 308.1).