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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    4« [9] pudenda tepefcanf; mollefcant & diffolvantur for Covdi^us lays, “ hoc loco, idem figniBcat “ quod” and Heyftchm ialvEcrScci,, ^iccxsTp-^cci, in the fame manner. The remaining Part of your i.ith and r2.th Pages are like,wife in Spachius {q) and may be found in Hip-- pocrates ir); but I dare fay you cannot have taken them from either of their Works, becaufe you have to¬ tally inverted the Order in ^\\\c\\Hippocrateshd.s deliver¬ ed them, when there can be no Manner of Reafon afTigned for fo doing: For he fays (j), uv xaBaiftrui ra s(pBx, ?7 oTTTa h oivu> Kccl IXccico ^ETa 7ry7'.t’7ro3'i(yy> y.u] (7r,7;rio.civ' “ ex quiblis puerperii purgamenta porifTi- “ mum expurgantur, allia codla aut afia, ex vino & “ oleo, cum parvis polypis & fepiolis j” and in Line ^2, he fays, y.ii. o^cc^l ^ va^aov TTU'ETcf, r/iVBiv y.u) -Tirriyixvov h oiiu y7\vy.tT, v>;rK* (XVBV oi^H, “ caftoreum autem aut nar- “ dum bibat. Ruta etiam jejunae ex vino nigro dulci bi- benda, aut fine vino.” This Part you have tranflated into Garlicky boiled or roafted^fmall OnionsSpike¬ nard, Rue, and Black Wine. In LAnt Hippocrates on oE TrO'VrcJv oi^«, a,prsi/.ia'.yiv Coravyjy, y.a,) ymra.iJ.»ov, KBvxrito'j you Ittov amntbusautempr^c/larenovimusaxtemiCum “ herbum, & didamnum, ac albm violse Flores, & Laferis fuccus And in Line 50, Hippocrates pro¬ ceeds I xccTrurx nti'vaSx xyvov tv oivu, you /y.sAtTt, “ deinde agni cafli Folia ex vino & melle trita.” When ce you fee Hippocrates began with tbofe Things, which he thought the mildefb, and proceeded to thofe which he fays are a^ifov as tziyxvrcov oT(Sa, dfc. “ omnibus au~ tern preeftare novimus^ Csfc.” but you have perverted his Method *, and have direded to begin with the laft. The firft Paragraph of your 13th Page may be found in Spachius ; (t) and in your next Paragraph the Original is mifeonftrued. For you have made Hippo- crates fiy, “If the Woman could not be delivered with- “ out the Help of Machines the Child is generally weak*,” but that Author fays, (u) Ut^h’ et fine ope medici. How you could commit fuch (q) P. 631, 632, 633, 68?, 712, 713, 713, 716. (r) P. 6c8. (j) P.608, 1.25. (/} P. 7^9’ P« 26 f, 1. the Inll.