Title: Obstetrical Practice
Author: Alfred C. Beck
Publisher: Williams & Wilkins
City: Baltimore, MD
Date & Edition: 1935, First Edition
Binding : Hardcover, blue cloth
Pages: 702 pp.
Illustrations: Abundantly illustrated throughout.
Book Details: This is a very thorough and practical textbook intended for graduate medical students. The author’s preface points out that historical, theoretical, bibliographical, and disproven theories and methods were deliberately excluded from the book. The focus is on the provision of safe and effective clinical care, in the context of the best known science of 1935. This volume is signed by the author on the flyleaf. On the endpaper is written William J. FitzGerald Long Island College of Medicine Oct. 1935. The author was an instructor at this medical school and the October date on the endpaper corresponds with the exact month of publication of this first edition, so it is likely that FitzGerald was either a student or a colleague of Dr. Beck.
Condition: Very good vintage condition. Light wear and scuffing to the blue cloth cover. Minor wear to both ends of spine. The binding is intact throughout. Pages are clean. No stains, tears, or other damage to pages.
Title: Obstetrical Practice
Author: Alfred C. Beck
Publisher: Williams & Wilkins
City: Baltimore, MD
Date & Edition: 1935, First Edition
Binding : Hardcover, blue cloth
Pages: 702 pp.
Illustrations: Abundantly illustrated throughout.
Book Details: This is a very thorough and practical textbook intended for graduate medical students. The author’s preface points out that historical, theoretical, bibliographical, and disproven theories and methods were deliberately excluded from the book. The focus is on the provision of safe and effective clinical care, in the context of the best known science of 1935. This volume is signed by the author on the flyleaf. On the endpaper is written William J. FitzGerald Long Island College of Medicine Oct. 1935. The author was an instructor at this medical school and the October date on the endpaper corresponds with the exact month of publication of this first edition, so it is likely that FitzGerald was either a student or a colleague of Dr. Beck.
Condition: Very good vintage condition. Light wear and scuffing to the blue cloth cover. Minor wear to both ends of spine. The binding is intact throughout. Pages are clean. No stains, tears, or other damage to pages.
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