TY - JOUR T1 - OBstetrics. a manual for students and practitioners. Y1 - 1909/12/18 N1 - 10.1001/jama.1909.02550250081026 JO - Journal of the American Medical Association SP - 2127 EP - 2127 VL - LIII IS - 25 N2 - 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 SN - 0002-9955 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.1909.02550250081026 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02550250081026 ER -