Essays on the puerperal fever and other diseases peculiar to women : Selected from the writings of British authors previous to the close of the eighteenth century / Ed. by Fleetwood Churchill.

  • Churchill, Fleetwood, 1808-1878.
Date:
1849
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Credit: Essays on the puerperal fever and other diseases peculiar to women : Selected from the writings of British authors previous to the close of the eighteenth century / Ed. by Fleetwood Churchill. 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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    THE SYDENHAM SOCIETY. The Seventh Anniversary Meeting of the Sydenham Society was held at the Society's Rooms, 45, Frith Street, Soho, on Tuesday, May 1st, 1849, Dr. B. G. Babington, Treasurer of the Society, in the Chair ; when the following Report was presented and adopted. REPORT. On this, the Seventh Anniversary of the Sydenham Society, the Council have the pleasure to present the following Report of their pro- ceedings during the past year: There have been issued for the Subscription of the past year four volumes, viz.:—Rhazes on the Small Pox and Measles ; the First Volume of the complete Works of Hippocrates; the First Volume of the English Edition of Sydenham, and the Second Volume of Rokitansky's Patho- logical Anatomy. It was originally the intention of the Council to have issued the Edition of Hippocrates in one volume ; but as it was found that, in this form, it would have constituted a very bulky and unwieldy book, it was deemed expedient to divide the work into two parts or volumes. Having also, for similar reasons, been induced to issue the English Sydenham in two volumes, the Council have been enabled to place in the hands of the Subscribers, earlier than they could otherwise have done, a portion of the great work of Rokitansky ; and as, by these arrangements, greater variety in the character of the works has been ensured, it is hoped that they will meet with the approbation of the Members. For the reasons which determined the Council to commence with the second, rather than the first volume of Rokitansky, they refer to the statements given by the Editor in the Preface to the second volume. The Council have the satisfaction to announce that they have secured the services of Dr. Fleetwood Churchill, of Dublin, to prepare a volume of select Monographs, principally by British authors, on the Diseases peculiar