{"id":280,"date":"2011-01-12T01:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T06:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/?p=280"},"modified":"2023-07-07T16:25:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-07T16:25:23","slug":"1866","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/01\/12\/1866\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 6 &#8211; 1866: A Theoretical and Practical Treatise on Midwifery by Pierre Cazeaux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/01\/12\/1866\/1866_title\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-284\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-284 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1866_title-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"Title page\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1866_title-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1866_title-637x1024.jpg 637w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1866_title-768x1235.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1866_title-955x1536.jpg 955w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1866_title-624x1003.jpg 624w, https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1866_title.jpg 994w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a>Published: Philadelphia, 1866<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen a book reaches its sixth edition,\u201d we read here, \u201ca preface is hardly needed.\u201d \u00a0Still today, the continuous reprinting of a work is often a mark of its enduring value. \u00a0When it came to obstetrics in the latter half of the 19th century, both Europeans and Americans turned to Pierre <a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/01\/12\/1866\/1866_plate1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-283\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-283 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1866_plate1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Cazeaux, an unchallenged expert who had served on the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Paris and worked at one of Paris\u2019s largest lying-in hospitals. \u00a0As late as 1884, when the seventh American edition of this work was published, <em>The Weekly Med<\/em><em>ical Review<\/em> still lauded it as \u201ca treatise of rare merit and value.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/2011\/01\/12\/1866\/1866_blood\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-282\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-282 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/app\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2011\/01\/1866_blood-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Blood stained page\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>A book filled with practical information, Cazeaux\u2019s treatise was no doubt meant to be used. MIT\u2019s copy \u2013 a recent gift in memory of Elliot T. Adams, Class of \u201921 \u2013 bears this out.\u00a0 Its original leather binding is falling off, the spine is broken in several spots, and a stain on page 431 strongly resembles that of human blood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mit.primo.exlibrisgroup.com\/permalink\/01MIT_INST\/jp08pj\/alma990014706870106761\">Find it in the library<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published: Philadelphia, 1866 \u201cWhen a book reaches its sixth edition,\u201d we read here, \u201ca preface is hardly needed.\u201d \u00a0Still today, the continuous reprinting of a work is often a mark of its enduring value. \u00a0When it came to obstetrics in the latter half of the 19th century, both Europeans and Americans turned to Pierre Cazeaux, an unchallenged expert who had served on the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Paris and worked at one of Paris\u2019s largest lying-in hospitals. \u00a0As late as 1884, when the seventh American edition of this work was published, The Weekly Medical Review still lauded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":false,"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4192,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/4192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.mit.edu\/150books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}