A treatise on the epidemic puerperal fever, as it prevailed in Edinburgh in 1821-22. To which is added, as appendix, containing the essay of the late Dr. Gordon on the puerperal fever of Aberdeen in 1789-90-91-92 / By William Campbell.

  • Campbell, William, 1788-1848.
Date:
1822
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Credit: A treatise on the epidemic puerperal fever, as it prevailed in Edinburgh in 1821-22. To which is added, as appendix, containing the essay of the late Dr. Gordon on the puerperal fever of Aberdeen in 1789-90-91-92 / By William Campbell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    have occurred in my own practice ; I have borrowed from no one, unless with a view to support my own statements. Neither have I thought it necessary for this Treatise to be manufactured by a rhetorician to give it the gloss of eloquence, by a legal casuist to make it logical, nor by a Galen to give it that air of medical erudition and experience, which I did not myself possess. I have only stated what I have seen, and I am too well aware of my own inexperience as a writer, not to be conscious, that this performance must contain many errors ; but I have preferred a genuine to a varnished production. My only wish in bringing the following pages under the eyes of the Public is to be useful to others ; and, if the opinions which they contain should be the means of making a single cor-^ert, or saving to society the life of the most insig- nificant individual belonging to it, I shall always consider my labours to have been well bestowed, and rewarded far beyond their merits. % North St. David Street, > Edi7ihurgh, Nov. 1st, 1822. /