An Account of some of the most important diseases peculiar to women / by Robert Gooch.

  • Gooch, Robert, 1784-1830.
Date:
1836
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Credit: An Account of some of the most important diseases peculiar to women / by Robert Gooch. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library at Emory University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Woodruff Health Sciences Center Library, Emory University.

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    tempts to execute his own view of a subject, he is the last person in the world to judge whether he has succeeded or failed; when he has finished his task it is impossible for him to see it from the same point of view, and in the same light, as the public will; and as he himself would if he could forget its thoughts and phrases, and read it with a fresh and impartial mind. He may show it to a judicious and well-informed friend; but this is a poor ther- mometer of public opinion: the only one is publi- cation, and to this I must trust the fate of my volume. As my plan was in most cases to give a full account of each subject, and to include in it everything which I thought interesting or im- portant about it, I have necessarily had to include many particulars already well known: but even these I have not related from books, but from my own personal experience; even in the most com- mon-place fparts I claim to be more than a com- piler. The chapter on the art of distinguishing pregnancy from the diseases which resemble it, does not contain any point which was not already known, yet I know no books from which I could have compiled it unless I had had ample experi- ence in cases of doubtful pregnancy: the ma- terials are drawn from my own observation ar- ranged and cemented by my own reflection : this is a very different process to compilation. If the object of the student is to learn only what has been said on a subject, the pursuit of knowledge