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Abstract

PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF OBSTETRIC MEDICINE AND SURGERY, rI RzFERENCE TO TIHE PROCESS OF PARTURITION: with 120 Illustrations on steel and wood. By FRANCIS H. RAXSBOTHAM, M.D. Third Edition, enlarged. 8vo. pp. 726. London: 1851. This book combines many advantages: it is lucid, practical, beautifully got up, and very cheap. The present edition is not:more bulky than the last; but it is greatly enlarged, by the pages having been made longer and broader. In this way, ample room has been obtained for bestowing due attention upon the various important subjects which have of late been so much discussed by accoucheurs: as, for example, anasthesia in parturition, galvanism in lingering labours, turning in head presentations where the pelvis is narrow, and removal of the placenta before the child, in cases of placental presentation.