William Osborn, M.D.

by John after T. Hardy Jones

$350 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A lovely impression with a dark mezzotint bloom of this striking portrait of William Osborne, a famous man-midwife. William Osborne was a renowned man-midwife, whose inventions and voluminous writings greatly expanded the medical field. He became licentiate in midwifery of the College of Physicians in 1783, at which he was a respected lecturer and an admired researcher. He invented an improved obstetric forceps and published numerous essays on the practices of

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