MAUQUEST DE LA MOTTE, Guillaume. Dissertations sur la génération, sur la superfétation; et la réponse au livre intitulé De l'indécence aux hommes d'accoucher les femmes, & et sur l'obligation aux mères de nourrir leurs enfans de leur propre lait. 1718.
MAUQUEST DE LA MOTTE, Guillaume.
Dissertations sur la génération, sur la superfétation; et la réponse au livre intitulé De l'indécence aux hommes d'accoucher les femmes, & et sur l'obligation aux mères de nourrir leurs enfans de leur propre lait.
Paris, Laurent d'Houry, 1718.
12mo (160x93 mm), (2)-246 pages. binding : Bound in later (ca. 1800) half sheep, flat spine, title in gilt on lettering-piece. Joints splitting.
Rare first edition.
Guillaume Mauquest de La Motte (1655-1737) was a French surgeon.
He studied in Paris, mainly in surgery, which he studied for five years at the Hôtel-Dieu. After obtaining the title of doctor, he returned to his native region, where he practiced surgery and obstetrics for more than fifty years.
Chapter 3 (from page 82) deals with superfertility, which consists of the formation of a new pregnancy in a uterus that already contains a developing pregnancy (an extremely rare phenomenon in men).
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