A text-book of obstetrics / by Adam H. Wright ; with 224 illustrations in the text.

  • Wright, Adam Henry.
Date:
1905
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Credit: A text-book of obstetrics / by Adam H. Wright ; with 224 illustrations in the text. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Gerstein Science Information Centre at the University of Toronto, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Gerstein Science Information Centre, University of Toronto.

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    edge of normal labor with all its preventive possibilities is perhaps better appreciated on this continent than in older countries, be- cause a kind Providence has thus far mercifully preserved us from the licensed midwife. In the consideration of pathological and operative obstetrics an effort has been made to give full and definite directions for the treatment of all the emergencies which arise in the practise of midwifery. The pathological conditions arising in pregnancy, labor and the puerperium, and the relationship between them and such diseases as tuberculosis, appendicitis, heart disease, syphilis, gonorrhoea, nephritis, general toxaemia, etc., have been fully dis- cussed. The Book is divided into two parts: I. Physiological Ob- stetrics; II. Pathological and Operative Obstetrics. In making such a division, which is done partly for teaching purposes, it is not presumed that a definite line always separates the normal from the abnormal in midwifery. Part I contains the subjects of the third-year course; Part II contains those of the fourth-year course in the University of Toronto. I am indebted to Dr. Fothingham, Dr. Mcllwraith, Dr. Fenton, Dr. MacMurchy, Dr. Goldie, Dr. R. H. Mullin and Dr. Malloch for kind assistance in connection with the reading matter, and also to Dr. Edmund E. King, who took charge of the preparation of the illustrations, and was assisted by Dr. E. M. Walker. We have used chiefly the specimens and material in the University Museum and the Burnside Lying-in Hospital. The cuts illustrat- ing the repair of lacerations of the pelvic floor and perinseum are reproduced from drawings from life in the Burnside, by Dr. Walker. I have to thank Dr. Howard Kelly, Dr. Whitridge Williams and others, for some illustrations which I have bor- rowed. I have also to thank my Publishers, and especially Dr. Broome, for valuable suggestions, and for unvarying kindness and courtesy. ADAM H. WRIGHT. 30 GERHARD STREET, E., TORONTO, CANADA.