Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1707

FLEETWOOD CHURCHILL (1808-1878) Outlines of the principal diseases of females. A. Waldie 1839 [2] viii, 302 pp. 22 cm.

Churchill was an Englishman by birth, having been born in Nottingham. Unable to gain an apprenticeship with the physician of his choice, he elected to study medicine at Edinburgh where he received his degree in 1831. Churchill then went to Dublin to study midwifery and decided to remain there in the practice of obstetrics. He was a founder of the Western Lying-in Hospital, lectured on midwifery at the Richmond Hospital School of Medicine, and later was professor of midwifery in the School of Physic. He was active in medical affairs, wrote numerous articles, and published a number of books which were well received and enjoyed wide circulation. The present work was first published at Dublin in 1838 and was designed chiefly for the use of students. Churchill intended the work to be an elementary text and restricted details of controversial matters to the notes so that the student would first be exposed to the basic information on the subject. Diseases of pregnancy and childbirth were not included in the book.