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Excerpt from An Introductory Lecture, to the Course on Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children: Delivered in the University of Pennsylvania, November 5, 1846
Time, however, will not permit us to continue these observations; and surely it is not necessary: Enough certainlyhasbeen said towin dicate Our science from tlie,a5persions of. Ignorance;. To,show that no argument. Can be drawn from analogy, as regards parturition among the lower animals, among savages, or among the healthy/and laborious classes of society, against the' practical utility of obstetrics; that the abuses and malpractice of empirics or half-educated obstetricians cannot be urged against the judicious and scientific employment of those remedial measures and those well -adapted operations which, while they exalt our science, render it an inestimable blessing. You certainly will suitably appreciate the importance and dignity of obstetrics; you will be prepared to cultivate with assiduity its fundamental principles, to practise it successfully, to urge its importance on others, and to em ploy all your in¿uence now, and more especially hereafter, to elegate this branch of the profession 1n the estimation of the community, and to extend far and wide its beneficial in¿uence, that present and future generations may reap the benefits of your talents and studies, and be blessed through your instrumentality.
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