Records of obstetric consultation practice ; and a translation of Busch & Moser on uterine haemorrhage, with notes and cases.

  • Copeman, Edward, 1809-1880.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Records of obstetric consultation practice ; and a translation of Busch & Moser on uterine haemorrhage, with notes and cases. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    and honestly reported, has a natural tendency to induce a train of thought which cannot fail to be beneficial as an exercise of the mind, and will be the most likely means of exciting original views, or of confirming such as have already been entertained as the result of prac- tical experience. Feeling this myself, I am hopeful that I may be doing something to satisfy similar re- quirements on the part of others by the publication of a series of consultation Cases; and as life is uncertain, I plead this as an excuse for not delaying it for the sake of further numbers or experience. There can be no question as to the progress of medi- cal science having been much hindered by the loss of knowledge possessed by many of those whom death has removed from the scene of their labours; a vast amount of practical information, than which nothing is more wanted in such a profession as our own, perishes year by year with the possessors of it; and those who suc- ceed them have to pass through the severe ordeal of painfully-gained experience ere they can reach the same amount of capability of doing good to others. The busy practitioner perhaps feels no inclination to devote the little time he can snatch from the arduous duties of his calling to the additional toil of writing; he may have no taste for literary pursuits; he may have no time to devote to them; his health may be unequal to the task, or disease or death may deprive him of the opportunity; and so it comes to pass that his stores of