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Clarke (John, 1760-1815). Licentiate in Midwifery of the Royal College of Physicians. Lectures on Midwifry on Diseases of Women & Children, &c by Doct[o]r Clarke, at No. 1, New Burlington Street, London, 1802 & 1803, by Samuel Head, 213 [10] leaves manuscript lecture notes with sections on diseased menstruation, profuse menstruation, anatomy of female parts of generation and diseases thereof, physiology of generation, treatment of diseases during pregnancy, abortion, labour and difficult labours, preternatural labours, complex labours, diseases in consequence of parturition and the gravid uterus (?Mr Wilson's lectures), written in a neat hand with many rectos blank or partially completed with notes relating to facing page, index at rear with a final page on observations on puerperal fever by Dr Armstrong of Sunderland, contemporary sheep, worn, spine broken and some leaves detached, 8vo (195 x 125 mm) (Quantity: 1) John Clarke was one of ten licentiates in midwifery at the College of Physicians. His publications include: An Essay on the Epidemic Disease of Lying-in Women, of the Years 1787 and 1788 (1788), Practical Essays on the Management of Pregnancy and Labour (1793) and the textbook, The London Practice of Midwifery, first published in 1803. Clarke gave courses on midwifery and the diseases of women and children with Dr Osborn, both at St Bartholomew's Hospital, and at his home in New Burlington Street. The student who compiled these lecture notes was Samuel Head (c. 1773-1837), a Candian doctor, merchant and judge. Head was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. but received his medical training in England and in 1803 became a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of London. He moved back to Halifax where he started a practice in surgery and medicine in about 1804 where he also ran a pharmacy which had been established by his father before him. The Royal College of Surgeons of England have eleven manuscript notebooks of Dr John Clarke's lectures on midwifery kept by William Prosser, ref. MS0081/2.