The principles of midwifery; including the diseases of women and children / [John Burns].

  • John Burns
Date:
1817
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Credit: The principles of midwifery; including the diseases of women and children / [John Burns]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    not bear any proportion to the importance of the subject. Should this work fall only into the hands of those competent to judge on their profession, it would, if faulty or deficient, do | little harm: But as it has been circulated extensively, it must, like other systems and elements, have an influence on the opinions and future practice of the student of midwifery; and will prove useful or injurious to society, according to the correctness of the principles it contains. When I consider ~ how important the diseases of women and children are, and how much depends on the prudent management of parturition, I feel the high responsibility which falls on those who presume to give lessons in midwifery. Ido, however, sincerely trust, that the precepts I have inculcated, will, in general, be found agreeable to the experience and practice of our best teachers; —and, on a review of the whole, I cannot say that I have either wasted the reader’s time in idle theory, or misled his opinion by mere speculation. In preparing a fourth edition for the press, I have carefully revised the whole work, and have made some additions, which I hope will prove useful. Glasgow, July, 1817.
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