Wilde, Friedrich Adolf. De cognoscendis et curandis placentae morbis libri quator […].

Berlin, A. G. Hayn, 1833.

8vo. X, 86, (2) pp. Papered spine.

 200.00

Rare habilitation thesis on illnesses of the placenta. The German physician F. A. Wilde (1801-51), a pioneer of birth control, would go on to invent the rubber cervical cap (pessary).

Some waterstaining.

References

Engelmann 636. Hirsch VI, 274. Kayser VIII, 536. OCLC 46162934. Not in Waller.

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