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A Course of Lectures ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF OBSTETRICS
1856
The Lancet
GENTLEMEN,-This is the most positive of all the operations of midwifery. The only other procedure with which it bears comparison, is the induction of premature labour before the viability of the child has been reached. In the Induction of Premature Labour after the seventh month; in Turning; in the use of the Forceps, and even in the Caesarian section, a chance of safety is afforded to both mother and child; but in Embryotomy, the child, if alive before the commencement of the operation, is
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