A synopsis of the various kinds of difficult parturition, with practical remarks on the management of labours / By Samuel Merriman.

  • Merriman, Samuel, 1771-1852.
Date:
1814
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A synopsis of the various kinds of difficult parturition, with practical remarks on the management of labours / By Samuel Merriman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    booksellers, and being about to pub- lish a new edition, I was desirous of endeavouring to render it somewhat more useful, by, adding such remarks upon the management of labours, as a pretty extensive practice in midwifery had taught me to approve. But I have attempted nothing more than to give a sketch of obstetrical practice, to form such a Compendium of Midwifery as might occasionally supply the place of a more volumi- nous work, in suggesting a hint or a caution, or in recalling to the mind an observation useful to the young prac- titioner. Thus tliis little book may licrvc the purpose of a Vade-]\Iecuin,