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.
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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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    12 ] _ while human Scnfe and Reafon are In the prcfcnt im¬ perfect .Stare, in proportion to the Degree ot their Learning, and Knowledge of the Subjedt treated of, and according to the various Paffions and Frailties, that are liard to be feparated from human Nature. To the Predominence ot which ot thefe, the Account in the following, Article in the Review is to be imputed, I will leave the Public to determine, after having pe- rufed thefe Remarks. As I fhall have frequent Occafion to refer to fome Part or other of the 61ft Article in the Monthly Review for December 1/§j and as the Reader may not have that Number by him, I fhall here prefix a Copy of ir, that he may be better able to judge, from the Argu¬ ments and Fadls I fhall produce, how far the Writer has WtdXt partially or impartially*^ in regard to your Trea- tife on Midwifery, fuppofing him to have underftood the Subje(ft, which in Charity I hope he did not. After giving the Title of your Book, the Writer of the Article proceeds, and divides the Account into four Paragraphs, to each of which I fliall prefix a Number, for tjre eafier finding out the Part I fhall re^ fer to in my Remarks. Sixty-firft ARTICLE. I. To this Treat!fe is prefixed a fhort Preface, apprizing the Reader of the Dodlor’s Motives, for committing himfelf to the World, and containing a ‘‘ fuccindt Account of the Work, which begins with ‘‘ an Introdudlion, exhibiting a Jummary Synopfi^ of the Practice of Midwifery^ both among the An- ‘‘ iients and Moderns^ with the Improvements^ which have been made in it, from the Pme of Hippocrates to the prefent Age \ then follows a difUnli and regular Syftem of theohftetric Art^ in all its Branches^ com-* pr eh ending the Anatomy of the Parts ^ ih^ Difeafes in- ‘‘ cident to pregnant VVomen, the various Methods of “ delivering in natural, preternatural and laborious Cafes the Difordcrs proper to Mother and Child, “ either