Munro Kerrs

OPERATIVE
OBSTETRICS

Cover illustration: The tenth table. Front view of twins in utero, from William Smellies, A Sett of
Anatomical Tables With Explanation and an Abridgement of the Practice of Midwifery. London: D. Wilson,
1754. Smellie employed the Dutch artist, Jan van Rymsdyk, who made coloured crayon drawings
directly from the anatomical dissections, followed by engraved copper plates from which the tables
were produced.

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OPERATIVE
OBSTETRICS
TWELFTH EDITION

Edited by

Thomas F. Baskett
MBBCh BAO(The Queens University of Belfast)
FRCS(C) FRCS(Ed) FRCOG FACOG DHMSA
Professor Emeritus, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology,
Dalhousie University, Halifax,
Nova Scotia, Canada

Andrew A. Calder
MBBCh, MD(University of Glasgow)
FRCS(Ed) FRCP(Glas) FRCP(Ed) FRCOG HonFCOG(SA)
Professor Emeritus, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology,
University of Edinburgh, UK

Sabaratnam Arulkumaran
KB MBBS(University of Ceylon)
MD PhD FRCS(Ed) FRCOG FACOG HonFCOG(SA)
Professor Emeritus, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, St Georges
University Medical School,
London, UK
Illustrations by Ian Ramsden

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