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Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women Under these conditions I accepted the task, and have endeavored scrupulously to carry out the terms of the agreement. Individual experiences or differing opinions have been included in brackets and signed T. G. T. Or P. F. M. As the case may be. All additions and alterations in this revision were without exception made by me, and I hold myself solely responsible for them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Diseases Peculiar to Women: Illustrated by Cases, Derived From Hospital and Private Practice IT is now more than twenty years since my attention was particularly directed to the important branch of Medical Science which constitutes the subject of the following pages. During a great part of this period, Guy's Hospital, with its extensive Lying-in Charity, and my own private and consultation practice in fe male diseases, have afforded me opportunities falling to the lot of few practitioners. I do not, however, on this account urge any exclusive claim to the publi cation of a work of this kind, nor do I ask for its opi nions and practice any exclusive or undue deference; but I trust the truth of the principles, and the treat ment recommended in the book, will obtain for it the sanction and confidence of my professional brethren. The disposition to publish has been strengthened by an Opinion I have long entertained, that practitioners, who hold important public appointments, are bound, so far as their sources of authentic information can be made subservient, to improve and increase the com mon stock of professional knowledge. It may, too, be urged in favour of my attempt, that some production of the kind is really wanted; for, while we possess many valuable individual essays on female diseases, there are few complete and practical works.vfii preface. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women: Illustrated by Colored Plates and Numerous Wood Engravings On examination Of the numerous Allopathic works on this subject, I found that the pathology Of uterine disease had been carefully and successfully studied, and that, in this respect, this branch of medical science was at least equal, if not in advance Of the general practice Of medicine: and yet, with this accurate knowledge Of the nature and character Of the diseased actions, their treatment was far less success ful than our own, so far as medicinal agents were used for the cure, but where Operative interference was required, nothing more could be desired than was given in these works. From this investigation, commenced for my. Own benefit, the present work has grown. For the description and pathological character Of the diseases described in the following pages, I am principally indebted to Old-school authorities; but the practice is strictly 'eclectic, ' every measure recommended having been fully tested by myself, or by our most successful Eclectic practitioners. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.