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THE
MATRON'S MANUAL
OF
MIDWIFERY,
AND THE
DISEASES OF WOMEN DURING PREGNANCY
AND IN
CHILDBED,
BEING A FAMILIAR AND PRACTICAL TREATISE, MORE
ESPECIALLY INTENDED FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF
FEMALES THEMSELVES, BUT ADAPTED ALSO
FOR POPULAR USE AMONG STUDENTS
AND PRACTITIONERS OF MEDICINE.
By FREDERICK HOLLICK, M. D.,
LECTURER ON PHYSIOLOGY AND FEMALE DISEASES,—
AND AUTHOR OF THE DISEASES OF WOMAN,—
OUTLINES OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
FOR POPULAR USE,—NEUROPATHY,—
AND THE ORIGIN OF LIFE.
ILLUSTRATED BY OVER 50 SPLENDID ENGRAVINGS.
NEW YORK:
PUBLISHED BY T. W. STRONG,
NO. 98 NASSAU STREET.
BOSTON:—NO. 64 CORNHILL.
1849.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1848,
By FREDERICK HOLLICK, M. D.,
in the Clerk's office of the District Court of theUnited States for the
Southern District of New York.
The price of this Book isOne Dollar.—It may be obtained ofall Booksellers, or of T. W. Strong, 98Nassau-st., N. Y., who will also send it by Post to any part of thecountry, on receiving One Dollar and the Address.—N. B. All Dr.Hollick's other Books will be sent by T. W. Strong in the same way.
PREFACE.
A short time ago I published a populartreatise on The Diseases of Woman, in the non pregnantstate, and in that work I announced my intention of shortly publishinga similar one on Pregnancy and its diseases. This book is thefulfilment of that promise.
Being the first popular, and yet strictlyscientific and practical book on Midwifery everpublished, its preparation has necessarily been a work of great labourand difficulty. Everything had to be simplified; familiar explanationshad to be given of complicated processes, and illustrations had tobe designed that could be understood by my readers. Little or noassistance could be obtained from other works on the subject, becausethey were either designed for professional men; and therefore tootechnical, or else were too general in their explanations, and toounsystematical, to be of any practical use. I therefore had to writeevery part afresh myself, and plan a new arrangement; and so difficultwas this to do, satisfactorily, that I have twice beforecompleted the whole work, and then commenced at the beginning again,before I wa