A TextBook of Obstetrics Including the Pathology and Therapeutics of the Puerperal State Designed for Practitioners and Students of Medicine Classic Reprint

Excerpt from A Text-Book of Obstetrics: Including the Pathology and Therapeutics of the Puerperal State; Designed for Practitioners and Students of Medicine

In the present work, my aim has been to faithfully and accurately reproduce in English Professor Winckel's text-book of Obstetrics. How far success has attended the undertaking must be left to those capable of judging to decide. If some of the passages in the translation read somewhat stiffly, and upon comparison with the original these sentences are found to be rather literal in the rendering of them into English, the explanation offered is, that where in a given passage the question arose between style on the one hand, and precision upon the other, the choice has invariably been in favor of the latter.

Nothing contained in the original text has, intentionally, been omitted, and nothing, with the exception of two illustrations, has been introduced into the American edition.

It will be noted that the temperature markings of the original text have, for convenience sake, been converted from the Centigrade and Reaumur scales into those of Fahrenheit. The weights and measures have been retained in the original decimal system.

To my friend, Dr. Irwin H. Hance, of this city, I am indebted for the translation of a part of the work, and for much valuable assistance in the revision of portions of the manuscript.

In the Spring and Summer of 1888, while serving as interne under Prof. Winckel in the Royal Frauen Klinik of Munich, and while the German edition of the present text-book was passing through the press, it was my privilege to examine most of the original drawings contained in the work, and to inspect many of the anatomical specimens from which these illustra tions were drawn.

It has been with many pleasant and grateful recollections of Professor Winckel's numerous acts of kindness and courtesy, during my late residence in the Bavarian Maternity, as his pupil and interne, that this somewhat arduous task has been cheerfully undertaken and carried to its completion.

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