On The Nature Signs And Treatment Of Childbed Fevers

Author : Charles D. Meigs
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334688393
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book On the Nature, Signs, and Treatment of Childbed Fevers written by Charles D. Meigs and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from On the Nature, Signs, and Treatment of Childbed Fevers: In a Series of Letters Addressed to the Students of His Class A strong motive to make this book was also found in the fact that we have, in our American bookstores, only one really useful work on the special subject which is universally admitted to be of the very highest importance. I allude to the thin octavo volume published by Messrs. Haswell Barrington, one of the series of our friend Dr. Bell's Medical Library, and which was a reprint of Gordon's work, with Hey's, and Armstrong and Lee's on puerperal fever, with an introduction furnished by myself, and containing my then views on the disease. That volume is certainly a very rich one, and would be so did it contain only Alexander Gordon's treatise on the epidemic at Aberdeen; for I conceive that no man can have any just notions of the treatment of childbed fever until he has read Gordon's book. But, since his day, so much light has been cast on the subject, that the time has arrived to present that subject to our American physicians as it is now; and this is what I have endeavored to do. It is for others to say whether I have done it in a useful manner. The object of every publication ought to be to do some good, and I cannot but indulge the hope that the pains I have herein taken may have some useful results for physicians as well as the public; for I believe I have put down, in my Letters to my Students, the very best and most reliable opinions that I could collect out of all the many writers on childbed fevers that have come into my possession; a thing which, so far as I know, has not yet been done by any other author. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.