Buell Eastman
Published: 2018-09-25
Total Pages: 222
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Excerpt from Practical Treatise on Diseases Peculiar to Women and Girls, to Which Is Added an Eclectic System of Midwifery: Also, the Treatment of the Diseases of Children and the Remedies Used in the Cure of Diseases; Particularly Adapted to the Use of Heads of Families and Midwives Having looked over a thinly settled country, and seen by necessity, a great number of persons obliged to-relieve themselves and their families, i was struck with the im portance of putting into their hands such a work as would guide them in a plain and prompt manner in the discarge of their duty. I hope to be credited when I declare that the present work has not been undertaken without due de liberation upon the responsibility attached to such an en terprise, and that my aim most honestly is to be useful, and supply the public with a plain, accurate and practical work on the science of midwifery, and those diseases which peculiarly affect the female sex and children. I shall endeavor to proceed as candidly, honestly and sys tematically as a work of this kind will admit of. Most of the systems of medicine that have appeared in public, have been written for the learned and scientific, clothed with medical terms, such as are not generally understood by those who are laboring under disease, and most needed help, or those who were called upon to practice the art of midwifery in a country thinly inhabited. The question will naturally arise, shall we lock up and withhold from the snfiering patient the cause of her malady, the symptoms which spell her disease, the means of her restoration, and let her pine away in suffering sol itude, when there is balm in Gilead, and virtue within her own reach! Enlightened reason would say no. 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.