Title: Lectures on midwifery : and the forms of disease peculiar to women and children delivered to the members of the Botanico-Medical College of the State of Ohio /
Authors: Curtis, Alva, 1797-1881
Publisher: [s.n],
Year: 1846
Subjects: Obstetrics; Obstetrics; Midwifery
Contents: Introduction -- History of midwifery -- Dissertation showing the reasons why women need assistance in parturition, the kind needed, and how it is to be rendered -- A complete system of midwifery on the true botanic principles, with illustrative plates -- Testimonies from the regular standard authors, providing the vast superiority of the Botanic theory and practice -- 5050 Introduction -- Testimonies from the same, showing the errors in theory and dangers in practice of the regular system -- Examples of different kinds of practice, showing the safety and efficacy of the Botanic, the danger and fatality of the regular; and the folly, of course, of abandoning the former and resorting to the latter in cases of supposed difficulty and hazard.