A handbook of diseases of women : including diseases of the bladder and urethra / by F. Winckel ; authorised translation edited by Theophilus Parvin.

Date:
1890
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Credit: A handbook of diseases of women : including diseases of the bladder and urethra / by F. Winckel ; authorised translation edited by Theophilus Parvin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    EDITOR'S PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. The translation of Winckel's Lehrbuch der Frauenkrank- heiten has been very favorably received by the profession in this country and in Great Britain. It was my hope that a new German edition would appear before a second American issue was needed. But early last summer Professor Winckel wrote me that his professional duties so constantly occupied him, it would be impossible for him to do any work upon a second edi- tion the present year. He, however, expressed his cordial approval of the plan made known to him, which has been carried out in this issue, adding to the original work a section upon Dis- eases of the Female Urethra and Bladder, derived chiefly from his own monograph upon the subject. The translation of the Lehrbuch was made at my sugges- tion by Dr. J. H. Williamson, of Allegheny. In the revision of the translation, and in the proof-reading of the first issue, I had the valuable help of Dr. A. B. Hirsh ; Dr. A. A. Eshnur has rendered me similar assistance in the preparation of the present issue—several corrections have been made and a few omissions supplied, and we have endeavored not only to secure accuracy of statement, but also clearness and fluency of expression. Of course, as is elsewhere explained, it has been necessary in the added section to omit some and condense other parts of the original monograph ; but I hope that neither condensation nor omission has been made to the serious detriment of the prac- tical instruction.