The pathology and treatment of phlegmasia dolens, as deduced from clinical and physiological researches : being the Lettsomian lectures on midwifery delivered before the Medical Society of London during the session 1861-62 / by F.W. Mackenzie.

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1862
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Credit: The pathology and treatment of phlegmasia dolens, as deduced from clinical and physiological researches : being the Lettsomian lectures on midwifery delivered before the Medical Society of London during the session 1861-62 / by F.W. Mackenzie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    myself to be in the right; and I entertain too much respect for the eminent obstetricians who have pre- ceded me in the investigation of this subject, to de- sire to detract in the least from the merit of their labours. It is sufficient for me to avow, that I have had but one object in view in the prosecution of this subject, and that is the attainment of truth. The in- vestigations of others I have in no way sought to dis- parage or repudiate ; on the other hand, I have fully accepted all their substantiated facts: and I claim for myself no other merit than that of having carried our knowledge respecting them a little further, and of having thus worked out a theory of the disease more in accordance with its general history; and at the same time more suggestive of the true principles upon which its treatment, both preventive and cura- tive, should be conducted. 11, Chester Place, Hyde Park Gardens, London, March 1862.