Toward an understanding of the history and development of the Caesarean section : the pioneering 19th century statistical methods of Philadelphia physician, Robert Patterson Harris (1822-1899) : an inventory of the manuscript and photographic archive of Dr. Robert Patterson Harris / Robert Patterson

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Harris, Robert P. (Robert Patterson), 1822-1899. Toward an understanding of the history and development of the Caesarean section : the pioneering 19th century statistical methods of Philadelphia physician, Robert Patterson Harris (1822-1899) : an inventory of the manuscript and photographic archive of Dr. Robert Patterson Harris / Robert Patterson Harris.

Toward an understanding of the history and development of the Caesarean section : the pioneering 19th century statistical methods of Philadelphia physician, Robert Patterson Harris (1822-1899) : an inventory of the manuscript and photographic archive of Dr. Robert Patterson Harris / Robert Patterson Harris.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/768164576

This collection contains a case studies and comparisons of methods of Caesarean section in which Dr. Harris recorded the success and failure of methods commonly used at the time both in the United States and in Europe. It also contains correspondence with Max Saenger, a noted German gynecologist and considered the "Father of the Modern Caesarean Section"; Dr. Paul Zweifel, director of the University Obstetric Clinic of Leipzig, and a pioneer German gynecologist and physiologist; Richard Werth, a German gynecologist who delivered the Imperial Prince Henry; Franz van Winckel, a German gynecologist, obstetrician, first president of the German Society for Gynecology and Obstetrics; Charles Jewett, professor of Obstetrics in the Long Island College Hospital; and photographs of patientsand their children delivered by Caesarean section.

6 boxes (3 cubic feet)

University of Minnesota, Biomedical Library