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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    PREFACE. The following Inquiry,^ respecting the salutary effects of two of the most important remedies in counteracting the morbid ten¬ dencies connected with the pregnant state of the human female, refers wholly to the labours of a former sphere of practice ; but, chiefly owing to the introduction of ^ther and Chloroform into the Obstetric department, the sheets, after being fully completed, have been permitted to rest upon the shelves of the printer for nearly the space of two years. In laying it now before the Profession, permission is humbly entreated to state, that whilst an apology is due on account of the imperfect manner in which it is to be feared the information de¬ sired to be communicated has been conveyed, in consequence of inaccuracies in the record of cases, and other circumstances ; yet a hope is entertained that the outlines and general arrangement will be found such as to enable the practitioner whose aim it is to lay hold upon the truth, to discover whatever is useful amidst the surrounding rubbish, and, at the same time, to preserve him from an exercise of the measures recommended, which will prove in any degree inimical to the interests of his patients. The feel¬ ings of the Author, he imagines, could not be more effectually injured than by intimation received, that opinions had been formed as to the nature of his announcements, before having sub¬ jected them to an ample and impartial trial. In whatever manner an enlightened medical judicature may decide in this respect, the conviction of their utility, as well as the recollection of the success which almost invariably crowmed the issue of every case where it was possible to put them in operation within any thing like reasonable bounds, have been such as libe¬ rally to compensate for the toil and anxiety experienced during many a sleepless night, and would not at the present moment be * Forty pages of which have already appeared in the Northern Journal of Medicine,