Obstetrical Research in the Netherlands in the Nineteenth Century

I Sometimes this point is stressed by reference to the relative number ofscientific discoveries, or scientific productivity in nineteenth-entury German medicine, as is done by J. Ben-David, 'Scientific productivity and academic organisation in nineteenth-century medicine', Amer.Sociol.Rev., 1960, 35: 828-843; A. Zloczower, Career opportunities and the growth ofscientific discovery in nineteenth-century Germany, New York, Arno Press, 1981.2 Among the comparative studies on nineteenth-century German (medical) science those of Ben-David are the best known: Ben-David, op.cit.