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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    TO THE R E A D E IN the following Remarks upon Dr, SmellieV l^reatife on the Theory and Pra6lice of Midwifery, I have con- fidered that Author in feveral Lights ^ as an hiftorical tVriter^ as an Anatomift,^ as a Theorijl^ and a Ledlurer or Practitioner. Firft then^ as an hiflorical Writer he tells us in his Preface (a), that ‘ Phe Introduction contains a fumr/iary ‘ Account of the Practice of Midwiferyboth among the ‘ Ancients and Moderns, with the Improvements which * have been hitherto made in it; and this he has exhibited ‘ for the Information of thofe who have not lime or Op- portunity to perufe the Books from which it is collected % * that by feeing at once the whole Extent of the ArU they ‘ may he more able to judge for themfelves,, and regulate ‘ their Practice by thoje Authors,, who have written moft ‘ judicioujiy upon the SubjectC And in the Introduction (b) he fays, ‘ He Jhall give a Jhert detail of the Practice ^ of Midwifery,, with the Improvements which have been ‘ made in it, at different Times ; as he had been able to- ^ colled the Circuniftances from thofe Authors, ancient as * well as modern, who have written on the Subjedf [a) P, 2. [h] P. r