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CHAPMAN, Edmund (1680 – 1756)

1680 – 1756

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1733 CE

#6156.2

An essay on the improvement of midwifery.

Gives the first published account of the forceps, kept secret by the Chamberlen family for generations. Chapman was the second person in England to teach midwifery publicly. The first edition of his book was not illus…