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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    [ I? ] '' ' cere ; fi vero manibus non potefl, fafcia circumli- “ getur fetus corpus, atque ita paulatim educator. Si verb hoc non fuccedat, habent obhehrices quasdam te- nacuia qulbiis circumligant pannos ne laedant vel of- “ fendant fetum iifque educant.” This Inftrument we fuppofe to be the Forceps, altho* he does not de- fcribe its Shape or Form. . Vide Chap. 8. Your next Writer is Albucafts, v/hofe Works are in that Volume of Old Moderns^ as you call them (^), col- ledled by Spachius \ and even that Account is alfo taken from Friend (C, where your Reader may find what is mentioned in the Arabian Manufcripts, that is lodged in the Bodleian Library, without going to Oxford to confult the Original. After Albucafis you place Raynald^ who publifhed in 1565 *, but as he tranflated Eucharius Rhodlon de Partu Hominis, whofe Works I have never feen, I can fay nothing about him. I come now to that great Fund whence your preceding Accounts have been chiefly ex- tradbed, contained in one Volume in Folio, under the following Title, viz. “ Gynaeciorurn five de Mulie- rum turn communibus, turn Gravidarum^ Parien- ‘‘ tium, & Puerperarum affedlibus 65 morbis, Libri Grsecorum, Arabum, Latinorum vererum & Recen- “ tium editi, opera & Audio Ifraelis Spachii, Argen- “ tinae, 1597-” In this Angle Volume are contained the Works of twenty-one Authors, as you call them j fourteen of which you only juA name ; wherefore I fhall once for all acquaint the Reader, that I fliall pafs them by in the fame Manner, except in fuch Things as are worthy of Notice. Platerus leads the Van, and immediately precedes Mofchion^ whom you have already mentioned amongA the antient Writers. Next to him fucceeds the HannO 7iia Gynceclorumy Gdc. and then followsFw. You fay Eros or Frotula^ as if there was a Difpjte which of the two was the Author of this Treatifc, ‘‘ De (j) P, 46. (/) Part 2, p. 66, C Paf-