Excerpt from Marin's Atlas of Obstetrics and Gynaecology The illustrations of operative proceedings are equally injurious in my opinion, be cause they tend to narrow the student's self-reliance. Such operative manoeuvres should be taught on the phantom, and where possible the reasons for which they are performed, explained, because only he who justly appreciates the reasons for manoeuvres can carry them out in a competent manner. The mere looking at such illustrations drawn from artificial demonstrations on a phantom, can at the best but produce rule-of-thumb, not reasoning operators, who alone in the present condition of science should be tolerated by the state. I have therefore omitted all operative demonstrations, which, after all, only represent individual ideas, and never obtain universal recognition. For the same reason which caused me to limit the number of the illustrations and to exclude all un necessary drawings, I have limited the number of coloured plates and have copied existing plates, as original plates would have made the work too expensive. In selecting the various illustrations, I have endeavoured to retain those which have best corresponded with my own observations on the living as well as the dead subject. The lithographer, Herr A. Schultze, has in general taken pains to carry out my wishes; in some cases, however, he has, contrary to my desire, not transferred the illustrations with the concave mirror to the stone, so that several drawings do not exactly reproduce the position of the originals. No important mistake has resulted. 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.