Cases in midwifery / by the late John Green Crosse, M.D. arranged (with an introduction and remarks) by Edward Copeman. 1851.

  • Cross, John, 1790-1850.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Cases in midwifery / by the late John Green Crosse, M.D. arranged (with an introduction and remarks) by Edward Copeman. 1851. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    doubt not, acknowledge the existence of a void in pro- fessional experience in the district, that cannot easily be supplied. Of methodical men, he was one of the most methodical; punctuality he always considered a duty, as he found it invariably necessary to the due fulfilment of the requirements of an extensive practice; those who have had an opportunity of witnessing the large accumu- lation of professional and other cases, notes, and memo- randa, which he has left behind him, can amply testify to the vast amount of industry he exercised; and if ever a man possessed the desire and the qualifications for im- parting professional knowledge either to those who as practitioners consulted him, or who as pupils expected to be taught by him, Mr. Crosse was pre-eminent in these most useful and beneficial characteristics. The im- portance he attached to taking notes of cases, was always duly impressed upon his pupils; and so great was the facility he obtained from constant practice, that I have rarely found it necessary to make either alterations, addi- tions, or omissions in the cases which form the principal portion of the present work. I might have altered the construction of some of the sentences, but have pre- ferred leaving them in the form in which they were ori- ginally penned, as a guide for the. ready and sufficiently accurate method of reporting. As regards the benefits resulting from taking cases, I may here quote his own observations prefixed to the MS. volumes from which I have collected the contents of this book :—