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Excerpt from Obstetrics the Science and the Art I Tender to my medical breathren a new and improved edition of my work on Midwifery, for the success of which I am so greatly indebted to them. Some of the editions of the book have been very large ones, and among them may be mentioned the fourth impression, which was published in the year 1863, in the troubled period of our late civil war. That new impressions should, under such circumstances, be so soon demanded, affords me reason to feel that my labor in learning, in teaching, and in writing, has not been done in vain. Merely to say that this acceptance of my labors in behalf of our native medicine is a great consolation for my now advanced age, would be to express not the half of my sense of obligation to American physicians, without whose approval neither I nor any member of the Brotherhood of Medicine could have had any real success. As this is probably the last occasion I shall have to endeavor to make the book better for instruction than ever it was before, so have I felt constrained to carefully revise every one of its paragraphs, that I might leave it in a condition more worthy to be offered to my brethren, whose obedient and respectful servant I am and hope to be until the end of my life. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.