Excerpt from A Practical Treatise on the Diseases Peculiar to Women: Illustrated by Cases, Derived From Hospital and Private Practice The disposition to publish has been strengthened by an opinion I have long entertained, that practitioners, who hold important public appointments, are bound, so far as their sources of authentic informa tion can be made subservient, to improve and increase the common stock of professional knowledge. It may, too, be urged in favor of my attempt, that some production of the kind is really wanted; for, while we possess many valuable individual essays on female diseases, there are few complete and practical works. 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.