Indian infanticide: its origin, progress, and suppression / By John Cave Brown, M.A., Assistant-Chaplain, Bengal Establishment.

Date:
1857
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Credit: Indian infanticide: its origin, progress, and suppression / By John Cave Brown, M.A., Assistant-Chaplain, Bengal Establishment. 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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    PREFACE. Custom seems to have given almost a prescriptive right to the public to expect something in the form of an introduction, when a new work is presented to them, while it has placed an author under a corresponding ob- ligation to offer some prefatory remarks, either apologetic, or explanatory, or both. In the present case, this custom is the more readily complied with, that the author is altogether unknown to the public, and scarcely less so the subject of which he has attempted to treat, to a large majority of them. It is, therefore, the more necessary that he should at the outset explain why he has been in- duced to obtrude himself and his subject on their notice. In the end of October, 1853, having occasion to pass through the city of Umritsur, at the time when the note of preparation was being sounded on every side for the ap- proaching meeting for the suppression of infanticide in the