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HARVIE, John (1710 – 1770)

1710 – 1770

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1767 CE

#6156

Practical directions, shewing a method of preserving the perinaeum in birth, and delivering the placenta without violence.

Harvie, Smellie’s successor, advocated external expression of the placenta instead of traction on the cord, anticipating Credé in this connection by almost a century (see No. 6183). Reprinted in H. Thoms:…