The diseases of women with child and in child-bed: As also the best means of helping them in natural and unnatural labors. With fit remedies for the several indispositions of new-born babes. Illustrated with divers fair figures, newly and very correctly engraven in copper. A work much more perfect than any yet extant in English: Very necessary for chirurgeons and midwives practicing this art. Written in French by Francis Mauriceau. Trans. by Hugh Chamberlen, M.D. By whom this 2nd ed, is rev., cor., and enl., with the addition of the author's anatomy. London, Pr. by J.D., 1696.

Mauriceau, leading obstetrician of his day, introduced the practice of delivering patients in bed instead of in the obstetrical chair. It was to Mauriceau that Hugh Chamberlain attempted to sell the secret of his forceps. This book established obstetrics as a science. (Morton's Medical Bibliography, Fifth Edition, Edited by Jeremy M. Norman)

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