Essays and notes on the physiology and diseases of women, and on practical midwifery / by John Robertson.
- John Roberton
- Date:
- 1851
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Credit: Essays and notes on the physiology and diseases of women, and on practical midwifery / by John Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.
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![v]ii PREFACE. Mr. Kinder Wood, died; and others, like myself, had to retire from fatigues, the ill effects of which few con- stitutions could withstand. The Essays and Notes in this volume are the fruit of inquiries and experience when I was connected with the Hospital, and subsequently. Considering the oppor- tunities so long enjoyed, for the cultivation of pro- fessional knowledge, I may well feel humbled that I have accomplished so little. In respect to the Essay on The Period of Eemale Puberty in Different Climates, I need not say much, because the reader will find ample discussion on every point of the subject as far as the amount of our present information warrants. The investigation is a novel one, or rather, was so when I entered. upon it upwards of twenty years ago; and, though I have spared neither labour nor expense in promoting it, much still remains to be done to render it complete. It was no small satisfaction to me that my opinions on this extensive and profoundly interesting subject of inquuy-interestmg alike to the ethnologist, the jurist, and the historian, were unreservedly adopted and publicly maintained by Dr Prichard some years before his death. In his earher works he adheres to the old theory concerning the influence of climate on female puberty; but, m a second edition of 'The Natural History of Man/ published in 1845, after an analysis of my views and some commendatory expressions which are beyond my](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21460681_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
