La commare oriccoglitrice.Diuisa in tre libri ristampata correta et accresciuta dall'istesso autore.

Al Clarmo. Sr. Ottauian Malipiero. Venetia, Gio. Bat. Ciotti., 1621.

This is the first work on midwifery in Italian, and it is a rare edition of this famous book. Contains 31 remarkable woodcuts of childbirth operations, birth figures, instruments, etc. It is a work of importance for the study of the history of Caesarean section; in it Mercurio advocated the Caesarean option in cases of contracted pelvis.

Gerome Scipione Mercurio, Italian physician, was born the latter part of the 16th century. He studied medicine at Bologna under Aranzi; also at Padua. He became a Dominican but continued to practise medicine and later left his monastery to go to France as an ordinary physician. In 1601 he again took a Dominican habit, and died in 1615.

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