Volume 1

A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying-in women, and the means of curing, but more especially of preventing the principal disorders to which they are liable. Together with some new directions concerning the delivery of the child and placenta in natural births / [Charles White].

  • White, Charles, 1728-1813.
Date:
1777
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying-in women, and the means of curing, but more especially of preventing the principal disorders to which they are liable. Together with some new directions concerning the delivery of the child and placenta in natural births / [Charles White]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. (HE intention of the fol- lowing Treatife is to pro- pofe proper means for preventing a numerous and fatal amiable part of the creation; to combat a fet of pernicious maxims and opinions, built upon igno-_ tance, and fupported by prejudice and obftinacy ; and to vindicate na- ture herfelf from a charge of neglec& or infufficiency i in her Ores impor-