Smellie S Treatise On The Theory And Practice Of Midwifery Vol 1

Excerpt from Smellie's Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery, Vol. 2 The following Collections are intended to confirm and illustrate the method of practice recommended in my former Treatise, or first volume upon Midwifery; and are placed in the same order observed in that performance, to which they have references, as well as to a series of tables, to the number of thirty-nine, now ready for publication, which I have prepared, with a view to demonstrate and explain what otherwise might not be so well understood. These will, in some measure, supply the want of proper references in the former impressions of the first volume; though that defect is remedied in this edition. Between the years 1722 and 1739, while I practised in the country, I took notes of all the remarkable cases that occurred in midwifery; but in London, since the year 1740 to the present time, I have been more careful and minute in forming a Collection, with a view to make it public. From a great number of instances, I have selected only the most material, and such as were best adapted to the nature of my plan; for I was unwilling to tire the reader with a succession of parallel histories that contain nothing essentially different from one another. In order to render the performance still more complete, I have taken from authors of the best authority a few extraordinary cases which seldom occur, as well as borrowed some medical transactions from the most approved modern physicians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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