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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Licence: Public Domain Mark

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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    them is now fubmitted to the judgment of the public. If this trad fhould fall into the hands of intelligent women, who have no connec- tion with midwifery as a profeffion, and who have fortitude enough to read the di- ftreffes to which their fex may be liable, without any vain groundlefs apprehenfions, they will reflect, that a work of this kind would be incomplete, unlefs every poflible accident had been explained; that the pregnant ftate, however inconvenient, is generally free from other diforders; and that labour, though painful, is almoft al- ways natural, and the event happy. They may learn, that female afliftance is often inadequate to the end propofed; and to be cautious to whom they entruft their own lives, which are doubly valuable on ac- count of the relation in which they ftand to a worthy hufband and tender infants.