Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. F.R.S. Edin. ; Professor of midwifery in the university, and member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.

  • Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802.
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MDCCXC [1790]
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Credit: Outlines of the theory and practice of midwifery / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. F.R.S. Edin. ; Professor of midwifery in the university, and member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)

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    The management of puerperal women, from the late labours of fome ingenious accoucheurs already re- ferred to, may now be conducted on a more certain footing; the different difeafes, for inftance, may be <liftinguifhed with greater accuracy, which is a chief point in conducing the cure. The management, where there is no particular difeafe, is now directed by an attention to nature, unencumbered by refine- ments built on fallacious and uncertain theory. This part the author propofed for the fubjeft of a fecond volume; but the late publications, already menti- oned, have in fome meafure anticipitated the inten- tion. J