The principles of midwifery; including the diseases of women and children / [John Burns].

  • Burns, John, 1774-1850
Date:
1820
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Credit: The principles of midwifery; including the diseases of women and children / [John Burns]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. In preparing this work, I have endeavoured to proceed as much as possible upon the method of induction. I have col- lected with care the different cases which have been made pub- lic, as well as my own private observations. To these I have added the opinions and advices given by others, in so far as they seemed to be founded on facts, and supported by expe- rience. From the whole I have deduced, in the different parts of my subject, both the symptoms and the practice. The anatomical descriptions I have given from dissections and preparations before me whilst writing. I intended to have added to the text copious references to the opinions and cases contained in systems, or scattered through other publications. This would have rendered the present book, in some manner, an index to those already pub- lished, and been of considerable service to practitioners, who v/ished to consult them upon any particular point. But in spite of all my endeavours, the work has extended to a length which rendered it necessary to strike out many references, and shorten the account of cases, to prevent it from swelling to a size which would have rendered it less generally useful. Should this work fall only into the hands of those competent to judge in their profession, it would, if faulty or deficient, do