Practical essays on the management of pregnancy and labour; and on the inflammatory and febrile diseases of lying-in women / By John Clarke.

  • Clarke, John, 1761-1815.
Date:
1793
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Credit: Practical essays on the management of pregnancy and labour; and on the inflammatory and febrile diseases of lying-in women / By John Clarke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    • • • phyfic is falfe, or that after fo many ages fpent in vain refearches, it remained for him to clear away all former errors, and propofe a new and fuccefsful manner of treating dif- eafes. In this department of medicine, however, there has been lefs improvement than in the others ; but efpecially it appears to me that difeafes different in fymptoms and treatment have been confufed with each other. The only merit of thefeEflays, if they have any, will be that of difcriminating them that they may be refpeCtively known, in order that the treatment may be adapted to the variety of difeafed aCtions which is found to exift in the puerperal ftate. There may be fome, perhaps, who, in¬ fluenced by former prejudices, may fuppofe that the diftinCtions which I have drawn, are not real, but imaginary. But as they have occurred within my own obfervation, and been witneffed by many others, capable of judging, I am fatisfied that they will be found practically true. I have been cautious of admitting; any mat- ters merely of opinion, or limply connected with theory: when I have introduced any hypothetical