An abstract of midwifry, for the use of the Lying-in Infirmary. [-A single lecture in midwifry, on the glass machine. -The institution and oeconomy of the ... Infirmary]
By: [Sir Richard Manningham]
Publisher: T. Gardner
Published: 1744
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 35
Notes: Not a translation of 'Artis obstetricariae compendium' as sometimes stated (though it includes extracts from the work)

Manningham established the first lying-in hospital in Britain in 1739.

ESTC T55621.

Copy 1 Note: Claims of a link between this pioneer effor and later hospitals are discounted by J.E. Donnison (Med. Hist., vol. xv, p. 398-400, 1971)