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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine

STEARNS, John (1770 – 1848)

1770 – 1848

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1808 CE

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Accounts of the pulvis parturiens, a remedy for quickening child-birth.

STEARNS, John (1770 – 1848)

The first use of ergot in the induction of labor in America. Reprinted in H. Thoms: Classic Contributions to Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1935, pp. 21-23.