Prelezioni e scritti medici.

Torino:: Giuseppe Civelli, 1880., 1880. 222 x 148 mm. 8vo. viii, 526 pp. Illus., list of the author's additional publications. Original wrappers; upper joint reinforced with kozo. Crainz rubber stamp on title. Very good. RARE. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION. Sixteen previously issued essays on obstetric subjects, including puerperal fever, eclampsia, abortion, cholera, forceps, premature delivery, and the placenta. Scipione Giordano was working in Turin. PROVENANCE: Professor Franco Crainz (1913-2004) Obstetrics and gynecology, university professor, took his medical degree in 1936 at the University Rome, the Italian Society of Obstetrics and Gynaecology; he was Head obstetrics-gynecology Department, University Novara, Italy, 1956-1964, later becoming head obstetrics-gynecology Department, University Rome, 1972-1988. Crainz wrote on the history of medicine including a monograph: The Life and Works of Matthew Baillie MD, FRS L&E, FRCP, Etc. (1761-1823), [1995], and, An Obstetric tragedy: the case of Her Royal Highness the Princess Charlotte Augusta : some unpublished documents of 1817, [1977], collected books & papers (mostly Italian & European) in the history of gynecology. Posthumously published was a paper with John Dewhurst, "Dr John Sims. A mystery solved", BJOG, 17 May 2005.