Obstetric Forceps : Its History and Evolution (1929) (Facsimile ed)

Originally published in 1929, this book details the history and evolution of obstetric forceps, referring to English, French, German, Latin, Danish, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Russian and Japanese sources.

This facsimile edition has been reproduced using modern printing techniques.

Portraits of Hippocrates, Avicenna, Ambroise Pare, Mauriceau, Smellie, Levret, Simpson and Tarnier are included, together with illustrations of the instruments, which have, wherever possible, been reproduced from their original sources.

The inventors' original descriptions of instruments have been used, and notes on their lives and works have been provided.

Alban Doran's "Descriptive catalogue of the obstetrical instruments in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England", published in the "Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology of the British Empire" in 1921, has also been included.

This work should be of interest to obstetricians, midwives and medical historians.