A compendium of the theory and practice of midwifery : containing practical instructions for the management of women during pregnancy, in labour, and in child-bed; calculated to correct the errors, and to improve the practice, of midwives; as well as to serve as an introduction to the study of this art, for students and young practitioners / By Samuel Bard.

  • Bard, Samuel, 1742-1821.
Date:
1808
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A compendium of the theory and practice of midwifery : containing practical instructions for the management of women during pregnancy, in labour, and in child-bed; calculated to correct the errors, and to improve the practice, of midwives; as well as to serve as an introduction to the study of this art, for students and young practitioners / By Samuel Bard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wifeiy, who wishes to attain to any excellence in his art, to be too minute in his enquiries into every par- ticular of the shape, dimensions, and structure of the female pelvis; yet, as the object I principally have in view is rather to improve the knowledge, and to correct the errors, of those women who are already engaged in the practice, than to teach the art of midwifery ; I shall confine my observations to the most essential points, and shall dwell very particularly on them ; being convinced that in this way I shall accomplish my intentions in a greater degree, than by burthening the memory of my reader, with a great variety of particulars. PLATE I. Female Pelvis.