W. R. Dakin
Published: 2019-02-05
Total Pages: 670
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Excerpt from A Handbook of Midwifery This work is intended for students and junior practitioners. The subject is arranged in two divisions, those of Physiology and Pathology. In each of these the events of Pregnancy, Labour, the Puerperal Period, and those connected with recent birth are dealt with in turn. I have endeavoured to omit nothing that has a practical bearing, and at the same time to avoid the waste of space and the confusion of the reader's mind which would be incurred by inserting all the most recent pathological speculations and the newest details of treatment. With this object it has been my care to read through, or at least examine, all available treatises and monographs dealing, with each portion of the subject, to allow the facts, if any appeared, to undergo mental digestion, and then to write the paragraph or chapter dealing with the particular question. The main part of the matter contained and the opinions expressed in the text is, however, derived from the experience I have gained from my own cases, principally in hospital, and from the cases of others either seen by me or described by observers worthy of confidence. 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.