A Textbook of Obstetrics

The Queen Charlotte's Textbook of Obstetrics

The Queen Charlotte's Textbook of Obstetrics

Textbook of Obstetrics

Combined Textbook of Obstetrics and Gynæology for Students and Medical Practitioners

Early 18th century French obstetric textbook.

Angelique Marguerite Le Boursier du Coudray was a certificated midwife working in Paris from 1740. King Louis XV and his ministers were concerned with the declining birthrate in France, so Madame du Coudray was, according to the script beneath her portrait ‘pensioned and sent by the King to teach the practice of midwifery throughout the realm’. Between 1760 and 1783 du Coudray travelled most of...