On the nature, signs, and treatment of childbed fevers : in a series of letters addressed to his class / By Charles D. Meigs.

  • Meigs, Charles D. (Charles Delucena), 1792-1869.
Date:
1854
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Credit: On the nature, signs, and treatment of childbed fevers : in a series of letters addressed to his class / By Charles D. Meigs. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    TO R. LA ROCHE, M. D. My dear La Eoche :— The constant and loving friendship, that for more than twenty-five years, in uniting me with you in many interesting affairs—literary, professional, and others—has largely contributed to my happiness, makes me desirous of some suitable occasion to offer you a memorial of my grateful regard, and at the same time pay a tribute in acknowledgment of the eminent station you have acquired as one of the most learned and accomplished of American Physicians. I should take far greater satisfaction in dedicating this volume to your name, if I could believe it quite worthy of your accept- ance and approval; but, as it is probably the last formal contri- bution I shall have it in my power to make to our American Medical Literature, I will not allow the occasion to pass without offering it, and bespeaking for it, at the same time, your favor- able consideration. I owe you so much, that I would to God I could bring you a better gift, for I consider that whatever of success I have had as a physician is, in a measure, due to your good and loving counsel, without which I should perhaps have never become a public teacher and a writer on Medicine, nor have been much employed as a practitioner. It was you who, many years ago, drove me from idleness to industry, and from presumptuous reliance on my own power of observation in Clini- cal Medicine to an acknowledgment of the advantages and neces- sity of studying the writings of other physicians. I am, therefore, deeply your debtor for many things in addition to that kindly regard that has been the pure source of many pleasures for me. Perhaps you may even yet remember the occasion when, so many years since, as we were strolling of a summer day, under