A treatise of midwifery comprehending the management of female complaints and the treatment of children in early infancy.

  • Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802.
Date:
1781
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Credit: A treatise of midwifery comprehending the management of female complaints and the treatment of children in early infancy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    If, therefore, affiftance in child-bed be neceffary, if that affiftance cannot be pro- perly furniflied without inftruttion, or ad- miniftered by a male practitioner but in the molt neceffitous cafes, without diftreffing the patient, the author's time has been em- ployed for the valuable purpofe of earing pain, and of removing anxiety. It may not, perhaps, be prefumptuous to cxprefs his hopes, that experienced prac- titioners may find fome articles in this per- formance, though not entirely new, at leaft ftated in a light in which they have not been accuftomed to view them. He mall, therefore, flatter himfelf, that, in this re- mote way, he may be more extenfively ufeful to the fofter fex j and that, notwith- ftanding the extreme timidity and delicacy which influence the conduct of ladies in the choice of their female affiftants, he may eafe child-birth of fome of its pangs, and difarm it of its fevereft terrors. For his in- tentions, he can fully anfwer; the refult of them