THE

SCIENCE AND THE ART. .

CHARLES D. MEIGS, M. D.,

PROFESSOR OF MIDWIFERY AND THE DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN JEFFERSON MEDICAL
COLLEGE AT PHILADELPHIA; LATELY ONE OF THE PHYSICIANS TO THE LYING-IN DEPARTMENT
OF THE PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL; MEMBER OF THE SOCIETY OF SWEDISH PHYSICIANS

AT STOCKHOLM; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE HUNTERIAN SOCIETY OF

LONDON; MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY; OF

THE ACADEMY OF NATURAL SCIENCES OF PHILADELPHIA;

OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, ETC. ETC.

THIRD EDITION, REVISED.

WITH ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE ILLUSTRATIONS.

ANE MEDICAL

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1849, by

LEA AND BLANCHARD,

in the Office of the Clerk of the District Court of the United States in and for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

PHILADELPHIA:

T. K. AND P. G. COLLINS, PRINTERS.

0124 M51 1856

TO THE

EMINENT WESTERN PHYSICIAN,

PHILOSOPHER,

GENTLEMAN, AND SCHOLAR,

DANIEL DRAKE, M.D.,

OF

CINCINNATI.