Excerpt from Diseases of Women and Abdominal Surgery, Vol. 1
In the preface to my first work of this kind, which appeared in 1877, I urged a "plea that any new effort to extend our acquaintance with the Special Diseases of Women deserves at least to be received with patience." This plea was, to a very large extent, disregarded, and the method in which my little effort was received was speedily manifested in two wholly different and, I am bound to state, wholly unexpected directions. The first direction to be indicated is, of course, the most extended, and that consisted of ridicule, abuse, and misrepresentation.
The second direction was to me, however, far more important, and I soon ceased to trouble about the other. A small band of younger and more earnest men came to see and judge for themselves, and were speedily converted to the belief that a new field of work had appeared: and many who had started with a sneer at the "Birmingham School of Gynaecology" remained to speak of it with respect, to adopt its methods, and become its earnest and progressive disciples.
It is curious, as a mere little bit of history, to read the reviews of my work of 1877, and to read as a contrast the impression it has created in ten years as indicated in the pages of such a masterly work as Greig Smith's book on Abdominal Surgery, 1887.
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