A course of midwifery : [Edinburgh] / Thomas Young, [ca. 1770].

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A course of midwifery : [Edinburgh] / Thomas Young, [ca. 1770].

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Young, Thomas, -1783

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Born in 1730, Thomas Young received his M.D. from the University of Edinburgh in 1761. He first apprenticed as an apothecary and surgeon in Edinburgh, becoming a master surgeon in 1755. In 1751 he joined the Incorporation of Surgeons, a surgeons' guild in Edinburgh, and became its head or Deacon in 1756. He remained with the Incorporation until 1762 when he resigned to become a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. Young was appointed Professor of Midwifery at the University of Edinburgh in...