Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 372

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(MEDICINE--MIDWIFERY.) UNDERWOOD, FELIX J. Manual of Midwives. Copious illustrations. 58 pages. 8vo, original wrappers [together with] a Mississippi State Board of Health Midwife Permit for Lucretia Turner. [Jackson, Miss. 1956-1958]

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We could find no copies of the present edition of this manual, and only one of the original edition of 1925. As late as the 1950's many people in the rural South were still having their babies at home. This was especially true among poor blacks and whites alike, since the cost of a hospital birth was often beyond their reach.