Excerpt from A System of Obstetric Medicine and Surgery, Theoretical and Clinical: For the Student and PractitionerTo write a fairly complete systematic treatise on any branch of medicine demands from the writer a very wide experience of his own, a large acquaint ance with the work of others, considerable industry, and a critical faculty that will enable him to draw sound conclusions and precepts from his survey of the subject.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.