Excerpt from Catalogue and Report of Obstetrical and Other Instruments: Exhibited at the Conversazione of the Obstetrical Society of London; Held by Permission at the Royal College of Physicians, March 28th 1866 The Exhibition of obstetrical and other instruments, which, through the kind permission of the President and Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians, the Obstetrical Society of London was permitted to hold in their Library, will probably form an epoch in the history of Midwifery in this and other countries; for it is no exaggeration to say, with the distinguished surgeon who delivered the last Annual Address in Surgery before the British Medical Association, that it was "one of the most astonishing historical displays of the mechanical appliances of the obstetrical branch of the Art ever collected in one room." 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.