A treatise on the management of female complaints, and of children in early infancy / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. ; Professor of midwifery in the University, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society, of Edinburgh, &c.

  • Hamilton, Alexander, 1739-1802.
Date:
MDCCXCII [1792]
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Credit: A treatise on the management of female complaints, and of children in early infancy / by Alexander Hamilton, M.D. ; Professor of midwifery in the University, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, and of the Royal Society, of Edinburgh, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. THE objiftions commonly -.irged againfl: works on medical fiibjefls for the ufe of families, appear to be founded on partial riews, illiberal prtjudices, or the improper manner in which fotne books of that kind have been written. Although the mode of c\ire of dlfeafes in every cafe cannot be fully explained to people ignorant of the medical art, as no invariable rule of prafHce is appli- cable to the fame difprder in different conllitutions, it will not be denied, thai • ireaionscan be given by whicli the progrefs of many complaints may be retarded, and the caufes of not a few guarded againft. The particular department of the heahng art in which the author of the following (beets has been en- gaged for upwards of thirty years, afforded him fre- quent opportunities of regretting the want of a work on the management of FeMALE COMPLAINTS, cal- culated to fuliil thefc important purpofcs. He was therefore induced, about ten years ago, to publish a work of that nature. In correcting it for a third edition, within thefe fe.v months, he perceived that many improvements might be made, which would render it more extenfivcly ufeful than formerly ; but he found that thefe could not be introduced wiinout altering completely the form and ftyle of the book. '1 he importance of the objeft ren- dered him infenfible to the difriculty of the und^rtak- injr ; and the aid which he derived from an affiilant, who'has devoted himfclf for fcveral ye:vrs to the fame line of profcfiion, (his own fon). encouraged him to proceed with the talk, i (as) The