A text-book of obstetrics / by Barton Cooke Hirst.

  • Hirst, Barton Cooke, 1861-1935.
Date:
1918
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A text-book of obstetrics / by Barton Cooke Hirst. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE This work is the result of a practice devoted for the past twelve years exclusively to gynecology in both its branches— obstetrics and gynecic surgery. The author has served during this period as consulting and attendant gynecologist and obstet¬ rician in eight of the principal hospitals of Philadelphia. His experience in obstetrical complications and operations has con¬ sequently been exceptionally large. He has been engaged, moreover, during the whole of his professional career, in teaching medical students in clinics, hospitals, laboratories, and in the lecture-room. He ventures to entertain the hope, there¬ fore, that his training has fitted him for the preparation of a book which shall serve as a guide to undergraduate students and to physicians in active practice. It has been his constant aim to condense the text as far as is consistent with a comprehensive treatment of the subject. Illustrations have been extensively employed, the majority of them from original photographs and drawings. The task, impossible within a single volume, of presenting a complete bibliography of each subject has not been attempted. The student who desires such information is referred to the “ Catalogue of the Surgeon-General’s Library,” the ten volumes of the “ Jahresbericht fiber die Fortschritte auf dem Gebiete der Geburtshilfe und der Gynakologie,” and to the “ In¬ dex Medicus.” References are given to articles and books which have been most helpful to the author or which have been epoch-making in the history of obstetrics.