The Matron's Manual of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women During Pregnancy and in Childbed: Being a Familiar and Practical Treatise, More Especially Intended for the Instruction of Females Themselves, but Adapted Also for Popular Use among Students and Practitioners of MedicineHollick, Frederick
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The Matron's Manual of Midwifery, and the Diseases of Women During Pregnancy and in Childbed: Being a Familiar and Practical Treatise, More Especially Intended for the Instruction of Females Themselves, but Adapted Also for Popular Use among Students and Practitioners of Medicine
Hollick, Frederick
Chloroform; Gynecology; Indian Territory; Midwifery; Obstetrics; Pregnancy
DR. HOLLICK'S LECTURES.--These Lectures continue to attract much
attention, and are commended by all who hear them. During the past week
Dr. H. has given a private Lecture and exhibition of his models to
many of our prominent Senators and public men, all of whom expressed
themselves highly gratified, and desirous that another class should be
formed to accommodate their friends who had not attended.--_National
Intelligencer, Jan. 30, 1846._
DR. HOLLICK is a gentleman of no less knowledge in his profession than
eloquence in his means of imparting it, and he is certainly deserving
of great credit and support for his exertions in a new field of such
universal importance. We commend these Lectures with the fullest
confidence to the attention of our citizens.--_N. Y. Sun, Aug. 6, 1845._
"LETTERS FROM NEW YORK, NO. 11."
"* * * * There have been several courses of Lectures on Anatomy, this
winter, adapted to popular comprehension. I rejoice at this; for it
has long been a cherished wish with me that a general knowledge of the
structure of our bodies, and the laws which govern it, should extend
from the scientific few into the common education of the people. I
know of nothing so well calculated to diminish vice and vulgarity as
universal and rational information on these subjects. But the impure
state of society has so perverted nature, and blinded common sense,
that intelligent women, though eagerly studying the structure of
the Earth, the attraction of the Planets, and the reproduction of
Plants, seem ashamed to know anything of the structure of the human
Body, and of those Physiological facts most intimately connected with
their deepest and purest emotions, and the holiest experience of
their lives. I am often tempted to say, as Sir C. Grandison did to
the Prude--'Wottest thou not how much _in_-delicacy there is in thy
delicacy?'
"The only Lectures I happened to attend were those of Dr. Hollick,
which interested and edified me much. They were plain, familiar
conversations, uttered and listened to with great modesty of language,
and propriety of demeanor. The Manikin, or Artificial Anatomy, by
which he illustrated his subject, is a most wonderful machine invented
by a French Physician. It is made of _papier mache_, and represents
the human body with admirable perfection, in the shape, coloring, and
arrangement, even to the minutest fibres. By the removal of wires it
can be dissected completely, so as to show the locality and functions
of the various Organs, the interior of the Heart, Lungs, &c.
"Until I examined this curious piece of mechanism, I had very faint and
imperfect ideas of the miraculous machinery of the house we live in. I
found it highly suggestive of many things to my mind." * * *
L. M. C.
[Extract from a Letter in the "Boston Courier" of Monday, June 3d,
1844, by Mrs. L. M. Child.]
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