L'accoucheur methodique, qui enseigne la maniere d'operer dans tous les accouchements naturels et artificiels...
L'Accoucheur methodique is a 1676 French midwifery manual by Denis Fournier, published in Paris for practising midwives and surgeons, teaching how to deliver babies both naturally and by artificial means. The four pictures are numbered woodcut figures of a foetus in the uterus, shown in different positions, with the ruled-page headers and article titles around them. A designer might take from them the rounded, oval enclosing forms and the fine parallel hatching used to model the body in early printed anatomy.
