Transcriber's Notes
Page 39 states, "In Plate VII. the line marked † crosses the upper strait, or brim of the Pelvis," but there is no † in the original image.
On page 341, Chapter XXIII was incorrectly labeled Chapter XXII. That has been corrected here.
Minor punctuation errors were corrected on pages vi, 4, 13, 19, 90, 141, 151, 200, 202, 206, 215, 258, 271, 301, 313, 323, 346, 457, 460, 464.
Inconsistencies in hyphenation and capitalization have been retained. Original spellings have been retained except in the cases of these apparent typographical errors:
Page 29, "situate" changed to "situated." (This is the part situated between...)
Page 53, "tha" changed to "that." (Thus some authors asserted that...)
Page 56, "barenness" changed to "barrenness." (...or, in other words, which produce barrenness...)
Page 64, "Tincœ" changed to "Tincæ." (The Os Tincæ, or mouth of the Womb.)
Page 116, "is" changed to "in" in two instances. (...Womb in a first pregnancy, and in a female...)
Page 138, "expeeted" changed to "expected." (...or before the expected period...)
Page 156, "foetal" changed to "fœtal." (...and covered with the fœtal membranes...)
Page 183, "rotale" changed to "rotate." (...the head is compelled to turn, or rotate...)
Page 203, "cephalio" changed to "cephalo." (...it is called the right cephalo iliac position...)
Page 238, "langour" changed to "languor." (...falls into a quiet and pleasing langour...)
Page 240, "signs" changed to "sign." (...and if there is no sign of its coming...)
Page 243, "subseqnent" changed to "subsequent." (...being done in their subsequent labors.)
Page 247, "asphyxated" changed to "asphyxiated." (...are most likely to become asphyxiated...)
Page 253, "capble" changed to "capable." (...she thinks herself stronger, and more capable...)
Page 255, "presentatious" changed to "presentations." (...very unfavorable presentations of the fœtus...)
Page 257, "unforseen" changed to "unforeseen." (...alarmed when unforeseen difficulties occur...)
Page 281, "developement" changed to "development." (The development of the head cannot be ascertained...)
Page 307, "cause" changed to "causes." (Still such presentation occasionally causes...)
Page 311, "presentatations" changed to "presentations." (...most dangerous of all the presentations...)
Page 313, "and" changed to "any." (...child and pelvis from any other cause.)
Page 323, "recommeuds" changed to "recommends." (Mauriceau recommends that women...)
Page 333, "continuanee" changed to "continuance." (...the continuance of pregnancy to the full period...)
Page 333, "inadmissable" changed to "inadmissible." (The plug is here totally inadmissible...)
Page 341, "honr" changed to "hour." (...may be preserved for an hour or two...)
Page 341, "amni" changed to "amnii." (...and then if the liquor amnii...)
Page 349, "introdueed" changed to "introduced." (When the first blade is properly introduced...)
Page 371, "distate" changed to "distaste." (This means a complete distaste...)
Page 380, "meat" changed to "neat." (A neat spoonful should be drunk...)
Page 385, "weaknes" changed to "weakness." (...a state of weakness and exhaustion.)
Page 385, "chlid" changed to "child." (...than dangerous, except to the child...)
Page 395, "unles" changed to "unless." (...unless very large, they cause...)
Page 397, "truely" changed to "truly." (...as truly so as those on the limbs...)
Page 408, "mattrass" changed to "mattress." (...lie on her back, on a hard mattress...)
Page 409, "accummulate" changed to "accumulate." (...and makes it accumulate in the womb...)
Page 413, "ocurrence" changed to "occurrence." (...which may account for the constant occurrence...)
Page 418, "ccnclusion" changed to "conclusion." (In conclusion it should be remarked...)
Page 422, "temblings" changed to "tremblings." (...then follow tremblings, numbness of the limbs...)
Page 426, "spmptoms" changed to "symptoms." (...after the first symptoms of the disease...)
Page 436, "two" changed to "too." (...or too unremittingly, particularly...)
Page 441, "oocasional" changed to "occasional." (...occasional doses of James's Fever Powder...)
Page 441, "James' fever powders" changed to "James's Fever Powder." (...occasional doses of James's Fever Powder...)
Page 445, "recommened" changed to "recommended." (Mesmerism has been recommended...)
Page 445, "develope" changed to "develop." (...will develop the bones of the fœtus...)
Page 450, "crowed" changed to "crowded." (...on the operating table of a crowded theatre...)
Page 452, "minmtes" changed to "minutes." (...the child was expelled in fifty minutes afterwards.)
Page 455, "throngh" changed to "through." (...with unusual difficulty through the brim.)
Page 457, "humau" changed to "human." (...natural parturition in the human mother.)
Page 459, "coporeal" changed to "corporeal." (...principles of our corporeal existence...)
Page 460, "1840" changed to "1846." (March 20, 1846)
Page 464, "Peansylvanian" changed to "Pennsylvanian." (From the Pennsylvanian, (Philadelphia,) Jan. 26, 1847.)
On page 240, an extra "an" was removed from the phrase "...to wait more than an hour..."
On page 456, the word "of" was missing from the phrase "...after a careful examination of all the cases recorded..."
On page 457, an extra "of" was removed from the phrase "the superinduction of anæsthesia."