MAURICEAU, FRANCIS, a French surgeon, who applied himself with great success and reputation to the theory and practice of his art for several years at Paris. Afterwards he confined himself to the disorders of pregnant and lying-in women, and was at the head of all the operators in this way. His Observations sur la grossesse et sur l'accouchement des femmes, sur leurs maladies, et celles des enfans nouveaux, 1694, in 4to, is reckoned an excellent work, and has been translated into several languages, German, Flemish, Italian, English; and the author himself translated it into Latin. It is illustrated with cuts. He published another piece or two, by way of supplement, on the same subject; and died at Paris in 1709.