The pathology and treatment of childbed : a treatise for physicians and students / By F. Winckel. From the second German edition. ... Translated by James R. Chadwick.

  • Winckel, Franz Karl Ludwig Wilhelm, 1837-1911.
Date:
1876
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Credit: The pathology and treatment of childbed : a treatise for physicians and students / By F. Winckel. From the second German edition. ... Translated by James R. Chadwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    The writer of the present treatise had been devoting him- self for many years to the special study of the puerperal diseases, when this predilection was strengthened by his appointment to the Rostock Lying-in Establishment. Since the op]3ortunities of showing interesting cases of childbirth, or of women's diseases, are not of daily occurrence in the small gynecological clinics, it naturally results, that the nor- mal and abnormal childbeds are observed much more assid- uously. The necessity of bringing this part of gynecological instruction into prominence causes us to recognize at once the fact that, in the modern treatises and manuals, the pathology and treatment of childbed are far from being thoroughly understood. In most of the obstetrical books used by students, such as those of Busch, Kilian, Hohl, Spiegelberg, Scanzoni's compendium and ITaegele and G-renser, this part is entirely omitted ; it is also wanting in the works upon the diseases of women that have been most popular among the German stu- dents, such as Scanzoni's and Langenbeck's translation of West. In the more extensive obstetrical treatises, like Scan- zoni's for instance, only the most important affections of childbed are briefly given in outline, the justice of which is not apparent, or else are, as in the work of C. Braun (1857), dogmatically and superficially condensed into a small space. In other volumes upon the diseases of women, they have only been here and there touched upon (Kiwisch). This neglect is not confined to G-erman writers alone, but English and Erench works of this same description also suffer from the like defect (Tyler Smith, Meadows, Velpeau, Cazeaux, etc.). Eor the above reasons, it is often perplexing to determine what book to recommend for the study of the puerperal dis- eases, especiall}^ as the older monographs by Helm (1839),