A treatise on the employment of certain methods of friction and inhalation in consumption, asthma, and other maladies - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1837 Excerpt: ... APPENDIX. ON MY IMPROVEMENTS IN OBSTETRICAX, INSTRUMENTS. It may seem somewhat surprising, that, in a work of so different a character, I should reprint the following observations; but many years have elapsed since I invented the instruments here described. That they were likely to form a great improvement in obstetrical medicine, I had a right to anticipate from the warm approbation (vide testimonials annexed) they elicited from the heads of the profession in that department. Since that time, a very extensive practice has fallen to my lot, and numerous instances have occurred, in which I had reason to congratulate myself on their discovery. Nevertheless, their use is not prevalent. The instrument-makers say that this arises from the circumstance, that they cannot be fabricated at so cheap a rate as most others; but I rather consider it arises from my not having given them a more extensive publicity. In order to remedy this as much as possible, I have determined to reprint the observations whenever an opportunity offers. "The following brief Appendix on the use of instruments may seem misplaced in a work destined for popular readers; but I conceive it is important to familiarise the female mind with this subject, in order to remove the extreme terror with which the use of instruments in midwifery is always viewed. It is fit women should understand that no instrument is now ever used to cut or in any other way operate on the mother. It is on the person of the child only that the accoucheur practises. It is also right that it should be understood that there are two kinds of instruments; one (to which unhappily we are sometimes compelled to resort) that can only be effectual by destroying the child; another, in which no injury even to the child is contemplated...
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