RT Journal
T1 OBstetrics. a manual for students and practitioners.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD December 18
VO LIII
IS 25
SP 2127
OP 2127
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02550250081026
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02550250081026
AB In this edition of Evans' "Obstetrics," several changes have been made and certain sections rewritten. The book is now one of the best of the smaller works on the subject; it is scientific and shows the mature judgment of a large and clear observation. The various subjects are presented in a concise manner with due regard to the relative importance of the various divisions.In the presentation of some of the debated questions of obstetrics the author in a few instances adopts views that some would criticize as insufficiently established or antiquated. For example, Williams' classification of pernicious vomiting of pregnancy into toxemia and other forms which can be distinguished by the urine examination is hardly so well established as to form an indication for treatment of the former by such a radical method as the induction of abortion.On the other hand no well-authenticated evidence authorizes attributing "congestion or