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MERCURIO, GERONIMO SCIPIONE. La Commare. Woodcut text illustrations. [32], 390 pages, with pages 343-50 bound between pages 358 and 359. 4to, later 19th-/early 20th-century 1/2 vellum; marginal dampstaining throughout with traces of mold at beginning and end, repair in upper margin of L8. Venice: Domenico Valvasense, 1703
"First Italian book on obstetrics . . . of importance for the study of the history of Caesarean section; in it Mercurio advocated the Caesarean operation in cases of contracted pelvis"--Garrison-Morton (1596 original edition in Italian).
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