Volume 2

The principles and practice of midwifery ... / Completed and corrected by James Sims.

  • Foster, Edward
Date:
1781
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Credit: The principles and practice of midwifery ... / Completed and corrected by James Sims. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    POR PE eee ae Gee neceflity of that ftudy to qualify them for the practice, and much more for the teaching of this art. I believe it may neverthelefs be aflerted, that in order perfectly to underftand, or to write well upon any branch of medi- cine, a knowlege of the whole fcience is requifite. It is on this account, that many Sur gical writers have been fo ereatly deficient, and that we have not_as yet had one complete S Syftem of Midwifery. I do. not. mean here. to derogate from the’ merits of Smellie, La Motte, Mauriceau, or other good. obftetrical writers; but furely no one who has been accuitomed to read Boerhaave, sauvage, Guabius, Haller, or other fyftems .of. the different branches of medicine, will. imagine that