ROEDERER, Johann Georg (1726-1763)

Icones uteri humani observationibus illustratae

Göttingen: sumptibus Vandenhoeckianis, 1759.
Folio: [pi]2 A--P2 32 leaves, pp. [4] 45 [15]. Title printed in red and black and with an engraved vignette. Plates: 7 engraved plates, the first signed 'J. P. Kaltenhofer del. ad Nat. et Sculps. cum sequent. Gottingae 1757'. Leaf size and condition: 428 x 280mm. Light soiling to title only. Binding: Contemporary half calf over sprinkled boards, unlettered spine, endleaves watermarked D & C Blaeuw; crude but minor repairs to head and tail of spine, lower joint and corners strengthened with glue, but a very well preserved binding. Provenance and annotation: Carl Diedrich Engelhart (1722--1812) with ink strokes through the letters C, D, and E on the titlepage; Svenska Läkaresällskapet with inkstamp on title; Hagströmer Biblioteket with duplicate withdrawn label on pastedown. References: Wellcome IV, p. 546; RCOG P. 65; Hagelin The Byrth of Mankynde pp. 120--121 describing this copy; Waller 8068.
First edition.
§ A fine atlas of the uterus, drawn from autopsies performed at the Lying-in Hospital at Göttingen. The text consists of detailed descriptions of the 7 fine plates, followed by tables of the dimensions of the uterus and ovaries. Roederer could hardly have been better educated: he studied under William Hunter and William Smellie in London and under Albinus in Leiden. He was called to Göttingen by Haller and on his initiative appointed the first professor of obstetrics in Germany. He founded the first lying-in hospital for the instruction of male obstetricians. This fine fresh copy is the copy described by Hagelin in The Byrth of Mankynde ... An illustrated and annotated Catalogue of Rare Books in the Library of the Swedish Society of Medicine (1990). When this collection (Svenska Läkaresällskapet) was merged with Karolinska Institutet to form the Hagströmer Library this copy was sold as a duplicate. <<The Icones, a superior atlas of the uterus with seven folio plates, was the result of his autopsy studies at the Lying-in Hospital at Göttingen. Here he stated that during the third month of pregnancy the cervix was felt lower down in the vaginal canal than the normal position. >>Hagelin. Literature: Cutter & Vietts, A short History of Midwifery (1964), p. 202.

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