The diagnosis, pathology, and treatment of diseases of womem : including the diagnosis of pregnancy / by Graily Hewitt.

  • Hewitt, Graily, 1828-1893.
Date:
1872
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Credit: The diagnosis, pathology, and treatment of diseases of womem : including the diagnosis of pregnancy / by Graily Hewitt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PEEFACE TO THE THIKD EDITION. This New Edition of my Treatise on ' Diseases of Women' is substantially a new work. The first edition was mainly a summary and a criticism of the then existing knowledge on the subject of the Diseases of Women. The second edition contained numerous pictorial illustrations of my own observations, with what may be termed suggestions of an improved system of uterine pathology. The present, the third edition, contains certain generalizations on the important questions of the pathology of diseases of the uterus, which have forced themselves on my attention in the course of several years' ex- perience, and which involve the adoption of views in reference to the pathology and treatment of diseases of the uterus which are new as compared with those embodied in the early editions of this work. The ' mechanical' system of uterine pathology now put forward is not a speculative theory. If I had published it when I first conceived it, some years ago, it would have been a speculation only, but the system as now enunciated commends itself to my judgment as true, inasmuch as I have found it in conformity with daily observation for five or six years past. These views on the subject are, therefore, not novel so far as I am personally concerned, but I have not until the present time felt myself warranted in giving so decided a public expression to them.