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Title: The matron's manual of midwifery, and the diseases of women during pregnancy and in childbed ..
Year: 1849 (1840s)
Authors: Hollick, Frederick, b. 1818
Subjects: Obstetrics Obstetrics
Publisher: New York (etc.) Strong
Contributing Library: Univ. of Mass Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Univ. of Mass Medical School, Lamar Soutter Library

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imparting it. We have no hesitation, however, in saying that Dr. H.is one of these men. He knows how to preserve in his subject all thatintense interest which it intrinsically possesses, and 3et to divest it ofeverything in the slightest degree obnoxious to censure, or even dis-trust. He has a happy faculty of making every thing easy to be un-derstood, and yet avoiding the slightest approach to undue familiarity.All who attend, express themselves both surprised and delighted, andunhesitatingly recommend his Lectures wherever they go. Many ofthe most eminent Ladies in our city were among his auditors lastweek, and were unreserved in their expressions of approbation, bothfor the Lecture itself, and for the becoming modesty and true refine-ment that characterised its delivery. The present series, which com-mence to-day, has been anxiously expected, and will no doubt be nu-merously attended by both sexes, but particularly by the Ladles,many of whom were unable to gain admission last week.
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468IMPORTANT NOTICE TO LADIES! THE PATENT ELASTIC AND MEDICATED PESSARY; FOR THE BELIEF AKD PERMANENT CURE OF PROLAPSUS UTERI, OR FALLING OF THE WOMB : Prolapsus Vagina, Rupture of the Bladder or Intestine into tho Vagina ;Retroversion, or Anteversion of the Womb ; and also, in many cases.of Leucorrhcea, or Fluor Albns ; invented by Dr. Hollick, and firstdescribed in his Diseases of Woman. This Instrument is certain to cure all the above named diseases,WHERE A CURE IS POSSIBLE. It cau be wom with perfect ease byyoung or old, summer or winter, night or day, without the slightest in-convenience. It is made of a soft elastic material, which never cor-rodes, and which gives way to the slightest motions of the body. Itcan never become displaced, nor fail to effectually support the parts,and is so light that it only weighs ene ounce. Oj^ This is the only Instrument of the kind ever invented, and cer-tainly the only one that can cure Falmxg of the Womb ; or beworn with ease, to relieve it, w

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