Postures & Practices During Labor Among Primitive Peoples. Adaptations to Modern Obstetrics; With Chapters on Taboos & Superstitions & Postpartum Gymnastics by Jarcho, Julius - 1934

New York: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., 1934. First edition.

SCARCE MONOGRAPH ON LABOR PRACTICES AMONG INDIGENOUS PEOPLE WITH OVER 100 ILLUSTRATIONS.

11 inches tall hardcover, brown cloth publisher's binding, gilt title to cover and spine, frontis drawing of mother in rocking chair preparing for delivery; xvi, 175 pp, 129 illustrations. covers and corners worn, spine ends frayed, 1/2 inch abrasion to lower spine, hinges cracked exposing webbing, light foxing to first and last pages, text clean and unmarked. In custom archival mylar cover.

JULIUS JARCHO (1882-1963) was a New York obstetrician and gynecologist. His efforts were fundamental in the establishment of Israel's National Medical Library when, in 1919, he learned that physicians in what was then Palestine were without medical literature. He devoted his personal and financial resources to collecting medical literature in the United States for a network of medical libraries, originally focused on the Jerusalem library as the central one, with branch libraries scattered throughout Palestine. Julius Jarcho was the father of Dr. Saul Jarcho (1906-2000), a physician with Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, who also served Editor-in-Chief of the New York Academy of Medicine Bulletin.