William Smellie

A Set of Anatomical Tables with Explanations, and an Abridgment of the Practice of Midwifery: with a View to Illustrate a Treatise on That Subject, and William Smellie

Publisher Marketing: Excerpt from A Set of Anatomical Tables With Explanations, and an Abridgment of the Practice of Midwifery: With a View to Illustrate a Treatise on That Subject, and Collection of Cases As, in a long course of teaching and practice in Midwifery, I hope I may without vanity say, that I have done something towards reducing that Art into a more simple and mechanical method than has hitherto been done; I have attempted to explain the same in my Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Midwifery and Collection of Cases; and finding that most of the representations hitherto given of the parts subservient to Uterine Gestation and Parturition were in many respects deficient, I have been induced to undertake the following Tables, with a view to supply in some measure the defects of others, and at the same time to illustrate what I have taught and written on the subject. How far I have obtained those ends, it belongs to others to judge, I shall only beg leave to observe here by way of Preface, that the greatest part of the figures were taken from subjects prepared on purpose, to show every thing that might conduce to the improvement of the young Practitioner: Avoiding, however, the extreme Minutiae, and what else seemed foreign to the present design; the situation of parts, and their respective dimensions, being more particularly attended to, than a minute anatomical investigation of their structure. 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."