Ectopic pregnancy; its etiology, classification, embryology, diagnosis and treatment.

  • Webster, John Clarence, 1863-1950.
Date:
1895
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Credit: Ectopic pregnancy; its etiology, classification, embryology, diagnosis and treatment. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    INTRODUCTION. The subject of Ectopic Pregnancy has received a great deal of attention during the last few years both in Europe and America. Though the importance of the subject might be considered a sufficient justification for the publication of a work which is an embodiment of the recent advances made in our knowledge of the nature and treatment of the condition, the author urges a stronger plea, viz., that he is able to bring forward for con- sideration a large body of original matter, based upon several years' clinical and laboratory work. He desires especially to call the attention of the embryologist, and of the scientific teacher of Obstetrics, to the chapters on Development. The detailed observations therein presented are the outcome of a careful examination of a large amount of material taken from the operation room and 2^ost mortem theatre during the last six years. The investigations have been carried on in the Laboratory of the Eoyal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. The author is also able, from an examination of the volumi- nous literature which he has collected, to brins- to the licrht some interesting records of workers during the past three centuries, which have for a lonsj time been overlooked. Throughout the book, the word Ectopic is used in pre-