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have excited attention during later years
[Pg 421] Few have expressed this opinion more strikingly than Dr. Kirkland, although so long ago as 1774; and it has often created our surprise, that amid all the numerous writings on this subject, which have excited attention during later years, so little notice should have been taken of his observations.
— from A System of Midwifery by Edward Rigby


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