A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying in women : and the means of curing, but more especially of preventing the principal disorders to which they are liable ; together with some new directions concerning the delivery of the child and placenta in natural births ; illustrated with cases / by Charles White, Esq. F.R.S. man midwife to the lying in hospital, in Manchester, in England, &c. &c.

  • White, Charles, 1728-1813.
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: A treatise on the management of pregnant and lying in women : and the means of curing, but more especially of preventing the principal disorders to which they are liable ; together with some new directions concerning the delivery of the child and placenta in natural births ; illustrated with cases / by Charles White, Esq. F.R.S. man midwife to the lying in hospital, in Manchester, in England, &c. &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    in almoft every other fcience, and has with par- ticular advantage been applied to many branch- es of medicine, no apology feems necetfary for trying the fame method of reafoning, on this important fubject, which has hitherto been too much governed by arbitrary cuitom, and igno- rant prejudice. On reflecting upon the caufe why lefs prog- refs has been made in the prevention and cure of the diforders which fo fatally attack lying in worr.cn, than in many others, it feems mod ob- vious to impute it to preconceived notions rel- ative to the puerperal frate, not founded upon fact. For while a more rational general doc- trine of fevers, and the ufe of cool air and regi- men in their cure (ever fince the time of Syden- ham, and efpecially of late) has been advanced and fupported by the fpirited endeavours of many able men,* prejudices of ancient date have too much prevented the application of their principles to the febrile diforders of pu- erperal women, which were conceived to be of that peculiar nature of which every thing be- longing to this ftate partook. Every improve- ment in practice muft' therefore take its rife from the eftablimment of more juft ideas con- cerning * Friend, Giafs, Huxham, Pringle, Lee, Perkins, Huck, Dimfdale, Ileberden. Brocklefby, Rurlon, Watfon, Baker, Kirkland, and many- others.