Petit, Antoine (1718-1794)

Traité d'accouchement. Notes of lectures taken down by an unnamed student: the first part (409 pp.) written by two hands, the last (63 pp.) by a third contemporary hand; this is headed 'Caiets d'accouchements'. The attribution to Petit is from internal evidence, and by comparison with other Petit MSS. Produced in Paris.

c. 1775

1 volume 409 pp. + 10 ll. (last 5 bl.). + 63 ll. 4to. 28 × 171/2 cm. Original boards, worn.

Purchased 1911.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).