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Ref NoDEP/BJW/3
TitlePrinciples of Midwifery by Christian Berger
Datec1766
TermObstetrics and gynaecology
Description Of ItemThe volume consists of a course of lectures delivered at the Royal Hospital of Lying-In Women at Copenhagen in 1766. Berger (1724-1789) was Professor in Surgery and Midwifery at the Royal University, Copenhagen and Professor of Anatomy at the Royal Academy of Painting. He also acted as man-midwife at the Royal Hospital of Lying-In Women in Copenhagen and court physician. It is not known who copied the volume or when John William Ballantyne acquired it. From the collection of John Ballantyne.

Bookplate of John W Ballantyne inside the front cover.
Extent1 volume
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