Excerpt from On the Nature, Signs, and Treatment of Childbed Fevers: In a Series of Letters Addressed to the Students of His Class The Object of every publication ought to be to do some good, and I cannot but indulge the hope that the pains I have herein taken may have some useful results for physicians as well as the public; for I believe I have put down, in my Letters to my Students, the very best and most reliable Opinions that I could collect out Of all the many writers on childbed fevers that have come into my possession; a thing which, so far as I know, has not yet been done by any other author. 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.