Excerpt from Practical Essays on the Management of Pregnancy and Labour: And on the Inflammatory and Febrile Diseases of Lying-in Women That I might not add to the obscurity already too great, and increase doubts and difficulties al ieady too numerous, I determined to describe things as I found them. The results of the facts which I had then collected, were hastily thrown together on the spur of the occasion, because if my observations were to be of any present utility, a part of their merit must consist in their' early publication. '1 thought it my duty to publish the experience which I had acquired, for the practical advantage, of th'o'se, whose opportuni ties of making extensive observations might, from accrdental circumstances, have been more con tracted than mine. 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.