On the theory and practice of midwifery / By Fleetwood Churchill. With notes and additions by D. Francis Condie.
- Fleetwood Churchill
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- 1859 [©1851]
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Credit: On the theory and practice of midwifery / By Fleetwood Churchill. With notes and additions by D. Francis Condie. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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The most admirable surgical atlas we have seen. practitioner deprived of demonstrative dis- • upon the human subject, it is an invaluable companion.— A *l Reporter. ■••II,:r|\ engraved and beautifully we have ever seen in an American bonk—one of the best ami cheapest Burgical works ever published.—Buffalo Medical Journal. It is very rare that so elegantly printed, so well illustrati ! a wnrk. is offered at so moderate a puce.—Charleston Medical Journal. A work which lias no parallel in point of nccu- racy and cheapness in the English language.—N. V Journal of Mtdiciiu. Country practitioners will find these plates of im- mense value. — iV. V. Medical Gazette. \\> are extremely gratified to announce to tin profession the completion of thii rnificent work, winch, as a whole, certainly stands unri- valled, both for accuracy of dl uty of coloring, and all the requisite explanations of the subject in hand.—The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal. This is by far the ablest work on Surgical Ana- tomy that has come under our observation. We know of no other work that would justify a stu- dent, in any degree, for neglei tion. In those sudden emergencies I arise, and which require the instantaneous command of minute anatomical knowledge, a work of this kind keeps the details of the dissecting-room perp< tuaily The Wesurn Journal of Midi- Its plates can boast a superiority which places them almost beyond the reach of competition.—Medi- fresh in the memory cal Exaviiiitr. \ cine and Surgery. MILLER (HENRY), M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children in the University of Louisville. PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF OBSTETRICS, &c. j including the Treat- ment of Chronic Inflammation of the Cervix and Body of the Uterus considered as a frequent cause of Abortion. With about one hundred illustrations on wood. In one very handsome oc- tavo volume, of over GOO pages. (Lately Published.) S3 75. The reputation of Dr. Miller as an obstetrician is loo widely spread to require the attention of the profession to be specially called to a volume containing the experience of his long and extensive ce. The very favorable reception accorded to his •• Treatise on Unman Parturition, Issued Bonn ; , is an earnest that the present work will fulfil the author's intention of providing within a moderate compass a complete and trustworthy text-book for the student, and book of re- ference for the practitioner. tion to which its merits justly entitle it. The Bfcyll is such that the descriptions are clear, and each sub- ject is discussed and elucidated with due regard to its practical bearings, which cannot fail to acceptable and valuable to both Btudents and prac- titioners. We cannot, however, close tins brief We congratulate the author that the task is done. Wi congratulate him that he haBgiven to the medi- cal public a work which will secure for him a high nanenl position among the standard autho- rities on the principles and practice of obstetrics. - a Hi la t ions are not less due to the medical pro- of this country, on the acquisition of a trea- notice without congratulating the author and the tise embodying the results of the studies, reflections, ami experience of Prof. Miller. Few men, if any. ci untry, are more competent than he to write on'thic department of medicine. Engaged for thirty- Bin an extended practice of obstetrics, for many years a teacher of tins branch of instruction •' the largest of our institutions, a diligent student as well as a careful observer, an original and independent thinker, wedded to no bobbies, ever ready to consider without prejudice new views, and to adopt innovation! if they are really improvements. and withal a clear, agreeable writer, a practical is pen could not fail to possess great alo Med Journaly .Mar. 1868. volume must take its place among the tematic treatises on obstetrics; aposi- profession on the production of such an excellent ! n atiee. The author is a western man of whom we feel proud, and we cannot but think that ins book will find many readers and warm admirers v> in rever obstetrics is taught and studied as a Bcience and an art.—Tht Cincinnati Lancet and < A most respectable and valuable addition to our home medical literature, and one reflecting credit alike on the author and the institution to wnich he is attached. The student will find in this work a most useful guide to his studies; the country prac- titioner, rusty in his reading, can obtain from iti pages a fair resume Of the modern literature of the se ence; and we hope tone tnis American produc- tion generally consulted by th on.— Va. Med. Journal. Feb. I MACKENZIE (W.), M. D., on Oculist in Scotland in ordinary to Hei I \<- A P] MEAT1SE ON DISEASES AND INJURIES OF THE EYE. To which is prefixed an Anatomical Introduction explanatory ol a Horizontal Section ol the Human Eyeball, by Thomas Whah ion Jones, K. ft. S. Prom the Fourth Revised and En- i. 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