Excerpt from Diseases of Women

Although Gyn?cology has engaged the attention of many very able writers, it must be admitted that there is within its scope a great deal upon which our information is still far from being either complete or accurate. I must plead, therefore, that any new effort to extend our acquaintance with the special Diseases of Women deserves at least to be received with patience.

Concerning some of these diseases I have ventured to advance new views, both of their pathology and their treatment, and towards these criticism may fairly be directed; but I can claim for most of them that they have already been published in the form of occasional papers, and have been well received by those whose opinions are of the greatest value.

My chief object in this book has been to offer the results of my own experience in as condensed a form as possible; and I have therefore avoided, as far as I could, long quotations, needless references, and detailed accounts of cases. I have also refrained from introducing illustrations of pathological appearances, for I have rarely found them to convey any very intelligible idea of the facts, unless in the form of costly lithographs; and the use of these would have greatly enhanced the cost of the book, without giving a corresponding increase to its value. The chapter on Diseases of the Ovary is an enlargement of my Hastings Essay of 1873.

My heartiest thanks are due to my friend Dr. Hickinbotham for his assistance in seeing the book through the press.

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