A treatise on the diseases and special hygiène of females / By Colombat de l'Isère. Translated from the French, with additions, by Charles D. Meigs.

  • Colombat de l'Isère, 1797-1851.
Date:
1850
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Credit: A treatise on the diseases and special hygiène of females / By Colombat de l'Isère. Translated from the French, with additions, by Charles D. Meigs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    DEDICATION. As to the materials that I have contributed, I hope you will give your approbation to the notices on the Hematological Disorders, and also to my remarks upon Puerperal Fever, concerning which many vague, incompetent and unsettled notions seem to prevail on both sides of the Atlantic. I confess myself as wholly belonging to the party of the Gordons and Heys, who have been so strenuous in their advocacy of a sound pathology and therapeia of the terrible dis- ease in question. You will see that in some places I disagree with M. Colombat, and even enter my protest against his views; but I can never, even under such circumstances, feel other sentiments than those of a profound respect for an author who has effected so much. In one of the pages of his Hygiene, M. C. says that women are not, by their nature and position, fitted to shine in the walks of literature, nor to toil for a scientific reputation, which men, even, cannot acquire but at the expense of their health and their happi- ness. Alas! I am grieved to learn that the estimable author of the Treatise presents, in his own person, the confirmation of his assertion ; and that his ruined health may be traced to the untiring zeal with which he has pursued the bubble reputation, and a more solid advantage, to wit, a consciousness of having done a good work for his day and generation. Join with me in sincere wishes that it may please the Divine Providence to restore his health, and that he may again be able to exert his inexhaustible patience, skill and probity, in behalf of an art which such talents are well qualified to illustrate and adorn. Farewell, my dear friend, and believe that I am, always, Your grateful and affectionate CH. D. MEIGS.