Graphic illustrations of abortion and the diseases of menstruation / Consisting of Twelve Plates from Drawings Engraved on Stone, and Coloured by Mr. J. Perry, and Two Copper-plates from the Philosophical Transactions, Coloured by the Same Artist. the Whole Representing Forty-five Specimens of Aborted Ova and Adventitious Productions of the Uterus, With Preliminary Observations, Explanations of the Figures and Remarks, Anatomical and Physiological.

Prolegomena.—

Page iii, Prop. 20, for reference (16), read (17).

 

Page vii, Prop. 39, for Haygton, read Haighton.

 

———— idem, for Embryoni, read Embryonis.

 

Page viii, Prop. 46, 1st line, dele (5).

Plate iii.—

Page 9, Exp. of Fig. 13, for membrane proper, read membrana propria, and the same mistake occurs at pages 11, 14, and 26.

The following letter from the artist to whose skill and patience I am indebted for the principal part of the engravings, and the entire colouring of the present collection, is inserted in this place, with the hope of increasing that confidence in the reader, with which it is desirable that graphic representations of extraordinary or anomalous objects should be received.

In sending you the last of the series of engravings on stone which I have executed under your directions for your work on Abortion, &c., I cannot omit stating, that I have endeavoured, to the best of my abilities, to copy in every instance and every minute particular the anatomical preparations which you placed before me and explained to me as I proceeded in my designs. The figures, in every case, have been drawn of the natural size, and are perfect facsimiles of the originals.

It gives me great pleasure to learn that they have given you satisfaction, and I am not a little flattered at having been assured by several medical gentlemen of eminence, who have seen my drawings, that the manner in which they are executed, and the work altogether, meet with their unqualified approbation.