An Essay on the Means of Lessening Pain, and Facilitating Certain Cases of Difficult Parturition.

DEWEES, William P.

$400.00

Item Number: 136502

Philadelphia: Published by Thomas Dobson and Son, 1819.

Second edition of Dewees’ inaugural dissertation for M.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. Octavo, original boards. In good condition.

American physician William Potts Dewees was , best known for his work in obstetrics, being described in American Medical Biographies as a "Philadelphian obstetrician [that] was so famous that no parturient woman of the time considered herself safe in other hands." Dewees received a Bachelor of Medicine and in 1806 an M.D. from the Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, where he would become Professor of Obstetrics, and Chair of Obstetrics from 1834 to 1841. In 1819, Dewees was elected to the American Philosophical Society.