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1490?-1526
German physician who published the first printed textbook for midwives. Rösslin's Die swangern frawen und hebammen roszgarten (A Garden of Roses for Pregnant Women and Midwives) was published in 1513 and went through forty editions. It was still in use in the 1730s. An English translation of the text by Richard Jonas, entitled The Byrth of Mankynde, published in 1540, was the first book of its kind to be printed in English. A revised, illustrated Latin translation of Rösslin's book was published by Jacob Fueff in 1554 as De conceptu et geratione hominis.