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Preface
This book attempts to present certain aspects of obstetric practice.
We hope it will be of help to the General Practitioner Obstetrician
who may be situated some distance from a main obstetric centre.
We have tried to maintain a realistic and practical outlook knowing
full well the difficulties encountered by our colleagues in rural areas.
If some of our ideas appecar unorthodox we hope they will stimulate
thought and discussion of the problems involved.
The contents of the book are based on (1) obstetric subjects which
have appeared in the series, 'Any Questions', in the British Medical
Journal during the last five years; (2) an analysis of the midwives
calls for medical aid in the county of Wiltshire for the years 1944 to
1946: (3) the work of the Obstetric Unit, University College Hospital,
London; (4) personal records and experience of one of us in semi-
rural practice for twenty-five years.
We have been fortunate in having the collaboration of Dr Harold
Waller, lately Paediatrician to the British Hospital for Mothers and
Babies, Woolwich, London, who has had such wide experience of
lactation and its problems and who has contributed Chapters 12,
14 and 15 as well as the section on Acute Lactational Mastitis in
Chapter 13; of Dr Shila G. Ransom, Anaesthetist to the Obstetric
Unit, University College Hospital, who has not only written those
sections dealing with her own speciality but has also given invaluable
help in the general arrangement of the book and in the arduous task
of proof-reading; of Dr Elizabeth Tylden, Psychiatric Assistant in
University College Obstetric Hospital, who has been studying the
emotional aspects in pregnancy and labour both here and in the
obstetric department of Bromley Hospital, Kent.
Our thanks are also due to Dr Agnes Semple, Deputy Medical
Officer ofHealth for Wiltshire, for allowing access to county records,
and to Mr Michael Abercrombie, M.A., PH.D., Reader in Embry-
ology, University College, London, for data appearing in Chapter 3.
We are grateful to Mr V. K. Asta, Medical Artist, University
College Hospital Medical School, for his lucid illustrations, to the
British Medical Journal for kindly allowing us to reproduce the
drawing of a mucus catheter, to Miss Catherine Harris, Dietetic
Adviser, University College Hospital, and to the Physiotherapists
attached to University College Obstetric Hospital for all their helpful
contributions.
London, 1952
W. C. W. N,
E. B. H.