OPERATIVE OBSTETRICS

INCLUDING

THE SURGERY OF THE NEWBORN

BY

EDWARD P. DAVIS, A.M., M.D.

Professor of Obstetrics, Jefferson Medical College; Obstetrician to the Jefferson Hospital; Obstetrician
and Gynecologist to the Philadelphia Hospital; Consultant to the Preston Retreat; Member
of the American Gynecological Society, International Congress of Obstetrics and
Gynecology, College of Physicians of Philadelphia; Honorary Mem-

ber of the Chicago Gynecological Society, Medical Society

of the State of Virginia, Academy of Surgery of

Bucharest, Ophthalmological Society of Egypt, etc.

WITH 264 ILLUSTRATIONS

PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON

W. B. SAUNDERS COMPANY

1911

IN THE

FRANCIS A. COUNTWAY
LIBRARY OF MEDICINE

Copyright, 1911, by W. B. Saunders Company

PRINTED IN AMERICA

PRESS OF

W. B. SAUNDERS COMPANY

PHILADELPHIA

PREFACE

THE recent development of obstetric surgery has reached a point where it seemed to the writer that a concise statement of methods of operating in obstetrics at the present time might be of service to the profession. The effort has been made to condense the subject matter. Bibliographies have been added for the convenience of those who may wish to consult the literature.

The writer desires to express his thanks for permission, given by recent writers upon the subject, to reproduce their illustrations.

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September, 1911.

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