A treatise on the management of female complaints, and of children in early infancy / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. ... ; revised and enlarged by his son, Dr. James Hamilton.

  • Alexander Hamilton
Date:
1818
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Credit: A treatise on the management of female complaints, and of children in early infancy / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. ... ; revised and enlarged by his son, Dr. James Hamilton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. THE author of the following pages Avas induced, iathe year 1780, to publish for the use of Mid- wives, a Treatise on the Management of Female Com- plaints, divested of technical terms. But as he found that that Work had been pretty extensively circulated among private families, he thought it incumbent on him to alter considerably the subsequent editions. He endeavoured to give such a description of the most ordinary complaints to which Women are liable, as should be intelligible to the attendants, or the pa- rents themselves ; to point out the circumstances from whence the several disorders originate, for the purpose of guarding against their occurrence ; to distinguish those Cases which yield readily to the employment of simple means, from those which require complicated management, and of course the regular attendance of a Medical Practitioner; and to detail the means for checking or retarding the progress of such cases. He added Directions for the Management of Children during early Infancy. As the Author did not live to superintend the pre- sent edition, his Son has endeavoured, in fulfilling that duty, to accomplish as nearly as possible the favourite wish of his Father, that every subsequent impression 7 77
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