Hints on obstetric practice, with illustrations. Part 1 / by John Bremner.

  • Bremner, John (Writer on business networks)
Date:
1849
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Credit: Hints on obstetric practice, with illustrations. Part 1 / by John Bremner. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TO JOHN THATCHEH, ESQ., M.D. LECTURER ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY, EDINBURGH. In dedicating to you my obstetric experience respecting the Virtues of Venesection and Opium,— remedies which stand paramount to most others in the alleviation of human suffering, under a countless variety of forms and degrees,—I feel sensible that I am but tendering to you a recital, with the merits of which you have long possessed a well-earned acquaintance. Should it, however, upon perusal appear that I have, in any important measure, departed from the ordinary rules laid down for their administration, it must also be borne in mind, that the seeds and early germs of the practice were chiefly of your own implanting and nur¬ ture ; and that the same solicitude for the welfare of the parturient female, which was so unceasingly, and with such well-directed pathos, inculcated by yourself only, has proved the cause why they have undergone the change alluded to during their after growth. THE AUTHOR.