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LABOR
AMONG
PRIMITIVE PEOPLES.
SHOWING
THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE OBSTETRIC SCIENCE OF TO-DAY,
FROM THE
NATURAL AND INSTINCTIVE CUSTOMS
OF
ALL RACES,
CIVILIZED AND SAVAGE, PAST AND PRESENT.

By

GEO. J. ENGELMANN, A.M., M.D.

Professor of Obstetrics in the Post-Graduate School of the Missouri Medical College Master in Obstetrics of the University of Vienna. Fellow of the American Gynecological Society; of the London Obstetric Society; of the Pathological Society of London. Consulting Surgeon to the St. Louis Female Hospital, St. Ann's Lying-in Asylum; Mexico Hospital, etc.

THIRD EDITION—REVISED, ENLARGED AND RE-ARRANGED,
FIFTY-NINE ILLUSTRATIONS,
ST. LOUIS:

J. H. CHAMBERS & CO.
1884.


Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by
JAMES H. CHAMBERS.
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

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