Excerpt from The Practice of Medicine and Surgery: Applied to the Diseases and Accidents Incident to Women
The second edition of this work was issued almost simultaneously with three Gyn?cological works by authors who have become world-known and been quoted by all modern writers on diseases of women. That edition was soon exhausted, and the work has been out of print several years. The above-mentioned full supply of good books on the same subject led me to neglect my own for this long time. Many of my friends in the Western section of this country, and some in other portions have, however, so kindly and frequently urged me to produce another edition that I am persuaded it might be useful to the profession.
The rapid progress of medical science in the last decade, and especially that department to which this work is devoted, has made so many changes necessary that the present edition is almost a new book. New chapters and subjects have been introduced, and most of the old ones have been rewritten.
In many instances I have expressed opinions and counselled practice that differ greatly from the teachings of the last edition. This could not be otherwise, nor do I desire that it should. Surrounded as I have been by such a throng of active workers, the results of whose labors I have tried to assimilate, my former ideas have been necessarily greatly modified, and I hope also improved. While there is much new material introduced, the omission of puerperal diseases and diseases of the breasts enables the author to compress the work into about the same size as the last edition.
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