The obstetric catechism : containing two thousand three hundred and forty-seven questions and answers on obstetrics proper / by Joseph Warrington, M. D. One hundred and fifty illustrations.

  • Warrington, Joseph, -1888.
Date:
1860
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Credit: The obstetric catechism : containing two thousand three hundred and forty-seven questions and answers on obstetrics proper / by Joseph Warrington, M. D. One hundred and fifty illustrations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    specimens, and give earnest heed to his demonstration! of the mechanism of the various kinds of labor opon the mannikin,—nay, more than this, embrace every possible opportunity to exercise yourselves, either alone with a demonstrator, or in small classes, (ill you become familiar with every variety of presentation, position, mode of cor- recting those which are deviated—the proper mode of per- forming version—the use of obstetric instruments, &o. This done, my little book will be of service to you, and [ shall be gratified, if, when you use it as a catechism of your knowledge in midwifery, you shall have been so well instructed by the method I have just pointed out, that you may detect any error which may exist, either from want of critical knowledge on my own part, or which may have been inadvertently committed, in the haste I have made to supply it to those who have demanded it of me for your sakes, while, as some of you know, I have been closely oc- cupied, not only in the ordinary duties of private practice, but in teaching the science and exercising the art of ob- stetrics in connexion with the Philadelphia Dispensary, Lying-in-Charity, and Nurse Society, since the year 1837, to successive classes of young men, in four courses per an- num, of at least sixty lessons each; have assisted in the training of more than three hundred and seventy advanced students or recent graduates in medicine; stationed them by the bedsides of more than two thousand parturient wo- men ; superintended their conduct there ; relieved them in their embarrassments and aided them in their difficulties; examined their clinical histories; superintended the prac- tical education of nearly one hundred nurses; have been engaged with lady visitors of the Institution in deciding the fitness of these candidates to enter upon their respon- sible duties of taking care of parturient and puerperal fe- males under the direction of their physicians, and there- fore, little time has been allowed me for authorship. I have not followed the systematic arrangement adopted by any obstetric writer in preparing this little offering, and I have not calculated it for the meridian of any particular school. The grand principles of this science and art are the same everywhere; and from the numerous institutions for me- dical teaching, which have sprung up around the parent