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MAURICEAU, François (1637 – 1709)

1637 – 1709

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1668 CE

#6147

Des maladies des femmes grosses et accouchées.

The outstanding textbook of the time. Mauriceau, leading obstetrician of his day, introduced the practice of delivering his patients in bed instead of in the obstetrical chair. It was to Mauriceau that Hugh Chamberlen…