The principles and practice of obstetric medicine and surgery : in reference to the process of parturition / by Francis H. Ramsbotham ; with notes and additions by William V. Keating.

  • Ramsbotham, Francis H. (Francis Henry), 1800-1868.
Date:
1857
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Credit: The principles and practice of obstetric medicine and surgery : in reference to the process of parturition / by Francis H. Ramsbotham ; with notes and additions by William V. Keating. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    m PREFACE OF THE AMERICAN EDITOR. The extreme popularity of Dr. Ramsbotham's Obstetric Medicine and Surgery has induced the American publishers to issue another edition, with the author's latest corrections. Those who are familiar with the former impressions will recognise numerous improvements in this. In order to adapt the work more fully to the wants of American | titioners, the Editor has embodied, as much as possible, the peculiar views of the most eminent authorities on Obstetrics in this country. Jl^ has availed himself of the opinions of Prof. Hodge, of the University of Pennsylvania, as set forth in his learned and eminently practical lectm and he has also made occasional reference to the standard works of Prof. Meigs, of the Jefferson Medical College. He tr that this volume furnishes a satisfactory exposition of both English and American Midwifery. Through the liberality and enterprise of the American Publishers, TTork has been rendered more useful, as well as beautified, by an addi- tional number of illustrations, well calculated to explain and illusta the text. As the Editor has endeavoured most sedulously to avail himself of all the means at his disposal, he trusts that his efforts may not prove en- tirely worthless. The additions which have been made refer chiefly to the inclined planes of the pelvis; generation; signs of pregnancy; foetal circulate mechanism of labour; employment of anaesthetics; use of ergot; American forceps and rules for their application; views of American Obstetricians on puerperal fever; Prof. Clark's treatment of puerperal fever; rupture of the uterus; causes of abortion, &c. The Editor's matter is distin- guished by being inclosed in brackets. PmLADSlPHlA, 111 South Fourth Street, Januaru. 1855.