A letter to William Smellie, M.D., containing critical and practical remarks upon his Treatise on the theory and practice of midwifery / By John Burton, M.D. Wherein the various gross mistakes and dangerous methods of practice mentioned and recommended by that writer, are fully demonstrated. And generally corrected.

  • Burton, John, 1710-1771.
Date:
MDCCLIII. [1753]
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Credit: A letter to William Smellie, M.D., containing critical and practical remarks upon his Treatise on the theory and practice of midwifery / By John Burton, M.D. Wherein the various gross mistakes and dangerous methods of practice mentioned and recommended by that writer, are fully demonstrated. And generally corrected. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fxii ] ^TCit\]Xt's Jlrguments for not multiplying Infruments^eak and ridiculous 200 •-———'Method nxjhen the Child's Head cannot he ex traced thd' con- neded tg the Body, Jhenxin to be dangerous to the Mother. 199 to 203 *r-.. Method nxhen the Head is left in the Wwih after Separation from the Body in all Cafes tedious, in fame nxill not anfnver the End, and in others dangerous to the Mother ; and a better Me¬ thod Jhe=von. 203 to 211, 223, 22^ Pradiice in floodings after Delinsery, inefedtual or dangerous. ' Z\ \ to 215 Mifake about fome Caufes of After-fains Jhe’wn. 215, 216 SmellieV Method of FraSiice, in finje Cafes, cojnpared woith that of this Authors, njohich laji, at one Vie<w, is Jhe^n to be preferable, from Zlj to 226 A better Method for the Management of ne<w-born ^weakly Children, than is generally follomoed, fet forth. 227 to 231. fhe Partiality and Want of Candour in the Writer of the thirty-third Article of the Monthly Review for September 1751, fully pronged, from ^35 the End, SIR,