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Excerpt from Woman: Her Diseases and Their Treatment
The present work was undertaken by the author only at the repeated and urgent solicitations of those students who have listened to his lectures for the past six or seven years; and, of those practitioners who have expressed themselves as having long experienced the want of a reliable work, from the School of Medicine to which the author belongs, upon the peculiar maladies to which Females in this country are subject, and which, from various causes, appear to be on the increase.
In the composition of the work, several objects have been held in view, viz: - to give a thorough account of the history, symptoms, &c., of the various diseases referred to, in as condensed a manner as possible, so as to retain it within certain limits, and place it at a price within the reach of everybody; to state fully the treatment pursued in these affections by the most successful practitioners, as well as that which the author adopts in his own practice, - and to accomplish this end, in addition to his own views, the most reputable authorities have been carefully examined; and to so arrange the work that while it may prove useful to the practitioner, its pages may also be consulted with advantage by every intelligent female in the land.
There are certain conditions and maladies incident to the pregnant and parturient female, which belong, more especially, to the department of Obstetrics, and not to that of the ordinary diseases of the sex; as these affections have already been treated upon in the author's work on Obstetrics, and not desiring to unnecessarily increase the size of the present volume, they have, more particularly for the benefit of medical men who may desire to learn the writer's views relative thereto, been merely referred to, stating the page upon which they may be found in said Obstetrical work.
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