Difficult labour : a guide to its management for students and practitioners / by G. Ernest Herman.

  • Herman, G. Ernest (George Ernest), 1849-1914.
Date:
1895
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Difficult labour : a guide to its management for students and practitioners / by G. Ernest Herman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    PKEFACE. Experience as a practitioner and teacher of Mid- wifery, and as an examiner in that subject, has led me to think that a book was wanted which should give the reader more definite guidance in practice than he gets from some, in other respects excellent text-books of the present day. The learner finds in them many different things that he may do : but he is not always clearly told which is the best. I have tried to tell him as clearly as I can what I think the best way of dealing with each complication of labour, and why I think so. An experience in difficult labour larger than that of most persons, is my excuse for thinking myself competent to do this. I have not aimed at giving a full representation of all current opinions, nor at directing the reader to the original sources of information upon the facts described, although I have put a few references to papers of interest. If the style of the book should seem unduly dogmatic, I would plead in extenuation the words