A new system of midwifery, in four parts; founded on practical observations. The whole illustrated with copper plates / By Robert Wallace Johnson, M.D.

  • Johnson, Robert Wallace, 1719 or 1720-
Date:
M.DCC.LXXXVI. [1786]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A new system of midwifery, in four parts; founded on practical observations. The whole illustrated with copper plates / By Robert Wallace Johnson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    T O JOHN HUNTER, Esq. FELLOW OF THE ROYAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON AND GOTTENBURGH, ♦ O F THE ROYAL MEDICAL SOCIETY; THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF SURGEONS, IT PARIS: A dL * . * . y f AND SURGEON EXTRAORDINARY TO HIS MAJESTY. S I R, Permit me to infcribe this Edition of my Midwifery to you alone, as one of the moft public tehi- monies, which I can give, of the grateful fenfe I retain, of your heady friendship to me, ever fince the firh of our acquaintance in the year 1750. My other good friends, to whom, with your- felf, the firh imprefllon of it was dedicated, are gone hence. Thanks to God ! You hill live to improve medical knowledge. I am fully convinced from many circumhances that your unbounded attention to this fubjedt, depends not on lucrative motives; but fingly a defire of doing good to mankind. Proceed, and may you profper!
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