Author: Charles D. Meigs

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-15

Total Pages: 28

ISBN-13: 9780331073843

Excerpt from Introductory Lecture to the Class of Midwifery, &C., In the Jefferson Medical College: Delivered Wednesday, October 9, 1854 IN opening, for the fourteenth time, the annual course of my Lectures on Midwifery, and the Diseases Of Women and Children, in this College, I heartily greet your presence here and with hopes that you may meet no disappointment in any just expectations of improvement or pleasure, I recur with pleasing remembrance to the former occasions in which we pursued together a course of studies tending to gratify all those who should perceive they made reasonable advances in the acquisition of useful knowledge. There is nothing a man can do, so it seems to me, at once more pleasing and useful than to give instruction to ardent inquirers after information that should redound to their own benefit as well as that of society in general nor do I imagine that anything can more agreeably employ one's passing hours, than giving attention to pursuits which, at the same time that they enlarge and define our views of things, place within our reach the faculty and the means of doing great good to our fellow-creatures. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.