Volume 3

Practical observations on diseases of women / by William Jones.

  • William Jones
Date:
1839
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Practical observations on diseases of women / by William Jones. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Should chance, therefore, throw this volume into the hands of any non-professional reader, the author would earnestly implore him to weigh calmly all the arguments advanced, and, if he approve ot the design of the Committee of Ma- nagement of the Institution, whose prospectus is annexed,* would entreat him to encourage their exertions with his assistance, even though it should not exceed the value of the ‘‘ widow’s mite.” Far, far from him be the wish to violate, or to encourage the violation of those habits of modest and delicate sensibility, which throw a halo round the sex, and give grace and dignity to the most imperfect form. May it ever be his earnest wish, as it has hitherto been his constant practice, to uphold the dignity and protect the delicacy of the sex, whilst reluctantly compelled to resort to those means, which are absolutely necessary to the mitigation of its sufferings, in many of their severest forms. The author would be guilty of gross negligence, * Vide Page 227.
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