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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    [ ]. than the * Catalogus Autorum qul in hoc volumirie con- * tinentur” which follows after the Preface: T. here indeed you may End Alberti Bottom^ i^c. by the fame Means, I fuppofe, you have been led into the Error aoout Trot'ula and Lithopedus ^enonenfis. The next Author, Johamies Le Bon^ you only name, who is fucceeded by Afnhrofius Parceus , but you poft- pone your Account of him, and then proceed to Alhu- cafis^ the Old P/Lodern^ already taken notice of amongft the antient Writers. Then follows Francifcus Roufet- tus-^ who wrote on the Ccefarean Operation ; but you have not mentioned that he f/j gives us feveral Hiftories of the Uterus being taken off, and yet the Patients re¬ covered ; and in his fixth Section he tells us of leveral Women becoming pregnant while they wore Peflaries. The feventeenth Author, colledled, as you tell us, by Spachius^ is Lithopedus Senonenjis^ which m- ftead of being an Author, is only the Drawing of a petrefied Child, when taken from its Mother, after flae was opened *, and this is evident from* the Title, pcedii Senonenjis Icon^ which, with the Explanation, is contained in one fingle Page only. The Account of it, as publiflied by Albofius^ in 1582, in Odtavo, may be feen at the End of Cord(eus'‘s> Works in Spcichius (hj^ whence again, I think, it is evident you muff have taken your Extrads from fome bad Copier. Your next Author that follows Lithopedus Seiionefifts^^ as you call him, is Cafpnr Bauhinus \ and after him is Mauricins Cordeeus^ who v/rote Commentaries upon the firfl Book of Hippocrates de Muliebribus. Altho’ you thought proper to tell us no more of him than his Name and Place of Abode, yet the chief of what you give us, as taken from Hippocrates, if) P.464, Sea. 4, Chap. 5. ig) 1*-479- W ^7 Kn4- is con eaed in the fecond Edition ; but how tne Author, as he tdls ns, be<zj,-as fix Tears in cooking up this inillake the Title, and reprefent the petrefied Child as an Autho that he had perufed, and taken Extratls from,y.r I he fprnranonof ihofenvho ha^ve not Time or Opportunity to perufe the Books j. cm ■vJ.id they are colUdecU is what furprifes me very mucu. c 3 IS